Abstract
The article aims to present social ties of the Republic of Bashkortostan based on voice cell phone data, which covers 12 million calls from and to the region during the first five days of March 2020. About 96% of calls are made within the republic and only 4% of them are interregional. The people of the Republic of Bashkortostan have close connections with those who live in neighboring regions (Orenburg, Sverdlovsk oblast, the Republic of Tatarstan and especially Chelyabinsk oblast). Being a part of the Ural Economic Region, the Volga Federal District and Volga-Ural Macro Region, the republic has turned mostly towards Ural regions. We also found that the republic has close social ties with Moscow and Moscow region, St. Petersburg and Leningrad oblast, as well as Krasnodar kray, Samara oblast and two Autonomous Districts: Khanty-Mansi and Yamalo-Nenets. We estimated the number of persons who possessed Bashkir SIM-card and were outside the republic during the research period – 183 thousand; the most of them were in the abovementioned regions. While conversation between residents lasts 50 seconds, which is among the smallest values, the calls to and from republics of Altai, Tyva, Khakassia, Sakha and Magadan oblast are 5-8 times longer. Overall, the communication pattern reflects migration flows and economic relations between regions. The results of this study can be utilized by researchers and Bashkir government to explore spatial interaction patterns between regions and may help to guide transportation planning and other potential applications, e.g. infrastructure construction projects. In conclusion, we postulate that cell phone data can be exploited as a source of social ties data, however, the strengthening communication shift into Internet space is diminishing information on the directional features of the ties.
Highlights
Russia is the largest country in the world and has the highest number of subjects among federative states (85 against 51 in the USA, 27 in Brazil, 16 in Germany, 13 in Canada) (Russian regions, 2011)
The conversation between residents lasts 50 seconds, which is among the smallest values, whereas the longest conversations with people of the Republic of Bashkortostan are induced by residents of the Republic of Khakassia, Magadan oblast, the republics of Sakha and North Ossetia
The people of the Republic of Bashkortostan have close connections with those who live in neighboring regions that underscores our first hypothesis
Summary
Russia is the largest country in the world and has the highest number of subjects among federative states (85 against 51 in the USA, 27 in Brazil, 16 in Germany, 13 in Canada) (Russian regions, 2011). In this regard, spatial and socio-economic development policy of the country at a regional level is of particular interest due to diversity of the regions. According to the «Strategy of spatial development of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2025», adopted in February 2019, and developed by the Ministry of economic development of the Russian Federation, the country is again divided into 12 Macro-Regions, but with a different composition of subjects than before
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