Medical and social characteristics of youth from the perspective of assessing reproductive potential: a multicentral study in the Far Eastern Federal District. A cross-sectional one-step study

The article examines the main features of the development of regional party systems in the Republic of Buryatia and the Transbaikal Territory. The authors’ attention is drawn to the conditions for the development of the political system of these regions on the eve of their entry into the Far Eastern Federal District. From the point of view of the authors, the process of transition of the Republic of Buryatia and the Transbaikal Territory was determined not only by the desire to increase the number of residents of the Far Eastern Federal District, but also by the desire to reverse the deteriorating political situation in the regions of Eastern Siberia. The drop in the ratings of regional heads, the weakening of the positions of the regional branches of the parties in power, against the background of the crisis in the economy, all this as a whole reduced the possibilities of managing the region from the federal center. The transition of the regions to the Far Eastern Federal District was to be supported by new financial injections, which was supposed to stabilize the regional party systems. In this situation, it becomes interesting how close the regional party systems of the Republic of Buryatia and the Transbaikal Territory are, how close they are to the electoral indicators of the Far Eastern Federal District. The solution of what internal problems are typical for them will contribute to the effective development of regional party systems on the ground. The authors note that in the Republic of Buryatia and the Transbaikal Territory, regional branches of the parties in power on the eve of the “transition” experienced a serious political crisis. This circumstance was actively used by the opposition, which managed to increase its influence in regional parliaments. At the same time, the leaders of the opposition put at the forefront not party interests, but personal ones. Partized in the early 2000 the regional political system, again began to return to the system of patronage-client relations, built on mutual benefit. The party system of the regions began to slowly degrade. The transfer of subjects to the Far Eastern Federal District should help to stabilize the local party system. The new heads of regions, who managed to straddle financial flows, managed to consolidate the political elite around themselves and build relatively stable, even relations with the opposition

During the past couple of decades, as South Africa has undergone a political and social transformation, conditions for reproduction and reproductive health have changed. Against the backdrop of these societal changes, the objectives of this cross-sectional study were to trace continuity and change in reproductive attitudes on an individual level, through three generations of women linked to each other by kin in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. This study is defined within the psychological theoretical framework called Values of Children, and the specific aims for this study were to explore the three generations of women's preferred timing of their first childbirth, their desired number of children and sex of the offspring, and the women's deeper motivations behind the wish for children. Participants ( n = 516) were chosen using a multi-stage cluster sampling procedure, and face-to-face structured interviews were conducted. Factor analysis indicated that the women have two main motivations to have children, namely Social/Emotional values of children and Traditional/ Utilitarian values of children. However, the motivations to bear children seemed to be less emphasised by the teenage women as compared to their mothers and maternal grandmothers. Likewise, the data revealed a change in reproductive attitudes in that teenage women wished to have fewer children later in their lives than the older generations. Stronger daughter preferences than son preferences were presented in one-child scenarios in all generations, yet the strongest emphasis on a daughter was found in the young generation. In the light of the huge social changes in the country, such as the explosion of HIV infections and the abolishment of the apartheid regime including its racial family planning programmes, we expected more dramatic changes in reproductive attitudes in three generations of women than those which we found.

The paper examines the evolution of institutional conditions in the electricity markets of the Baikal region from 2018 to 2023. The fundamental market conditions remained unchanged, however, the key changes followed the inclusion of the Republic of Buryatia and the Transbaikal Territory into the Far Eastern Federal District (FEFD), which has a set of unique institutional frameworks designed to invigorate the economy. These include targeted measures aimed at improving economic accessibility of electricity by averaging tariffs on electricity and subsidizing expansion of networks through investment support and leveraging the infrastructure available in the advanced development areas. Features of regional energy system of the Baikal region are analyzed comparatively. The regional power systems of the Transbaikal Territory and Buryatia are technologically inferior to those of their neighbors (the Irkutsk Region in the Siberian Federal District and southern regions of the Far Eastern Federal District). This technological disparity can be attributed to several key factors: a heavy reliance on thermal power plants, extensive wear and tear on infrastructure, and inadequate development of low-voltage networks. The study also examines the scale, structure, and dynamics of electricity consumption in the Baikal region and estimates economic accessibility of electricity for local population. Although the Republic of Buryatia and the Transbaikal Territory have comparable income levels and higher tariffs than Irkutsk Region, they experience the lowest electricity accessibility among all subjects of the Far Eastern Federal District. These data indicate that Buryatia and the Transbaikal Territory lack any significant competitive advantages in energy accessibility when compared to their neighboring areas.

PURPOSE. To conduct a descriptive epidemiological study of glaucoma in the Far Eastern Federal District covering the years 2012 to 2019. METHODS. The study uses data of the Federal Research Institute for Health Organization and Informatics (FRIHOI) covering the 2012–2019 time period, as well as data from the register of the Unified Interdepartmental Information and Statistical System (UIISS) and the Federal State Statistics Service (FSSS). Statistical data processing was carried out using Microsoft Excel 2019. Diagrams and a cartogram were built to visualize the obtained data. The reliability of the trend line was determined by the value of approximation. A trend is a tendency of changes in the studied time series. In this work, we used a linear approximation — a straight line that best describes the time course of incidence and prevalence. The significance of linear regression was checked using the F-test to determine the quality of the regression model. The coefficient of determination was also used to indicate the dependence of the variability of prevalence on time. A linear regression model was used to predict the prevalence of glaucoma in the Russian Federation and the Far Eastern Federal District; 91% of the total variability of prevalence in the Russian Federation is explained by a change in the time parameter, while 86% in the Far Eastern Federal District indicates a high accuracy of the selection of trend equations. RESULTS. According to the study, in the 2012–2019 years there was a significant increase in the incidence of glaucoma in the Primorsky Krai (PK) amounting to 8%. Over the observed period, a significant increase in the prevalence of glaucoma is noted in the Republic of Buryatia (6.9%), and in the Magadan Region (5%). At the same time, the highest incidence and prevalence of glaucoma was noted in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) — 105.4 cases and 1551.6 cases per 100 000 population. The expected prevalence of glaucoma in the Russian Federation (RF) in 2020 is 895–999.7 per 100 000 population, in 2021 — 908–1020.2; in the Far Eastern Federal District (FEFD) in 2020 — 783.7–961.3 per 100 000 population, in 2021 — 799.5–989.8. The largest proportion of glaucoma was found among the population of the Magadan Region (16%) and Yakutia (13.8%), the smallest in the Amur Region (5%) and the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug (5.7%). CONCLUSION. The dynamics of glaucoma incidence in the Far Eastern Federal District is uneven, which corresponds to the epidemiological situation in the Russian Federation as a whole. But the prevalence and proportion of glaucoma in the structure of diseases of the eye and adnexa in the FEFD are characterized by negative dynamics in comparison with country-wide. At the same time, even within the regions of the FEFD, the incidence and prevalence of glaucoma is mosaic, which predisposes to studying the influence of factors on glaucoma incidence.

PURPOSE. To conduct a descriptive epidemiological study of glaucoma in the Far Eastern Federal District covering the years 2012 to 2019.METHODS. The study uses data of the Federal Research Institute for Health Organization and Informatics (FRIHOI) covering the 2012–2019 time period, as well as data from the register of the Unified Interdepartmental Information and Statistical System (UIISS) and the Federal State Statistics Service (FSSS). Statistical data processing was carried out using Microsoft Excel 2019. Diagrams and a cartogram were built to visualize the obtained data. The reliability of the trend line was determined by the value of approximation. A trend is a tendency of changes in the studied time series. In this work, we used a linear approximation — a straight line that best describes the time course of incidence and prevalence. The significance of linear regression was checked using the F-test to determine the quality of the regression model. The coefficient of determination was also used to indicate the dependence of the variability of prevalence on time. A linear regression model was used to predict the prevalence of glaucoma in the Russian Federation and the Far Eastern Federal District; 91% of the total variability of prevalence in the Russian Federation is explained by a change in the time parameter, while 86% in the Far Eastern Federal District indicates a high accuracy of the selection of trend equations.RESULTS. According to the study, in the 2012–2019 years there was a significant increase in the incidence of glaucoma in the Primorsky Krai (PK) amounting to 8%. Over the observed period, a significant increase in the prevalence of glaucoma is noted in the Republic of Buryatia (6.9%), and in the Magadan Region (5%). At the same time, the highest incidence and prevalence of glaucoma was noted in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) — 105.4 cases and 1551.6 cases per 100 000 population. The expected prevalence of glaucoma in the Russian Federation (RF) in 2020 is 895–999.7 per 100 000 population, in 2021 — 908–1020.2; in the Far Eastern Federal District (FEFD) in 2020 — 783.7–961.3 per 100 000 population, in 2021 — 799.5–989.8. The largest proportion of glaucoma was found among the population of the Magadan Region (16%) and Yakutia (13.8%), the smallest in the Amur Region (5%) and the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug (5.7%).CONCLUSION. The dynamics of glaucoma incidence in the Far Eastern Federal District is uneven, which corresponds to the epidemiological situation in the Russian Federation as a whole. But the prevalence and proportion of glaucoma in the structure of diseases of the eye and adnexa in the FEFD are characterized by negative dynamics in comparison with country-wide. At the same time, even within the regions of the FEFD, the incidence and prevalence of glaucoma is mosaic, which predisposes to studying the influence of factors on glaucoma incidence.

BackgroundAlthough several studies have attempted investigating sex-related knowledge, attitudes, and practices among young people in China, deeper insights were still needed to further understand how this population could be supported to make healthy and safe sexual choices. Against this background, this study used a large set of secondary data to examine associations among sexual and reproductive health (SRH) knowledge, sexual attitudes, and sexual behaviour.MethodsA cross-sectional study was employed to explore the associations among SRH knowledge, sexual attitudes, and sexual behaviour with a publicly available survey data among the 1196 university students from freshmen to Ph.D. candidates. Descriptive analysis was used to describe the sociodemographic characteristics of the university students by gender. Associations of sociodemographic factors with sources and categories of SRH knowledge, categories of contraceptive knowledge, sexual attitudes, and sexual behavior were explored with Poisson regressions and logistic regressions, respectively. The mediating effects of sociodemographic factors on the associations between SRH knowledge and sexual behavior, observed sexual attitudes on the associations of SRH knowledge with sexual behavior, and latent sexual attitudes on the relationship between SRH knowledge and sexual behavior were analyzed in order.ResultsDescriptive analysis showed that the sample was dominated by age group (18 to 24 years), undergraduates, females, limited contraceptive knowledge, unfavorable sexual attitudes, and insufficient knowledge sources. Regression analyses showed that sociodemographic factors had significant associations with SRH knowledge, sexual attitudes, and sexual behavior. Subsequently, the mediating effects of sociodemographic factors on the associations of SRH knowledge and sexual attitudes with sexual behavior were confirmed. Controlling for sociodemographic factors, the effects of sexual attitudes on the associations between SRH knowledge and sexual behaviour could be verified. Structural equation modeling indicated that the linear sequence of sources and categories of SRH knowledge → sexual attitudes → sexual behaviour model and the triangle mediating effects of sexual behaviour → sexual attitudes → SRH knowledge model existed.ConclusionsSociodemographic factors and observed sexual attitudes mediated the associations between SRH knowledge and sexual behaviour. The sequence relationship: sources and categories of SRH knowledge → sexual attitudes → sexual behavior and the mediating relationship: sexual behavior → sexual attitude → sources and categories of SRH knowledge & sexual behavior → sources and categories of SRH knowledge and sexual behavior → sexual attitude → categories of contraceptive knowledge & sexual behavior → categories of contraceptive knowledge were confirmed in the sample. This study also identified an urgent need for the university students to access to SRH comprehensive knowledge.

The article shows the prospects and great potential opportunities for the development of sheep breeding in the Trans- Baikal Territory and Republic of Buryatia in the Far Eastern Federal District (Far Eastern Federal District), the leading position of these regions in the presence of sheep. In the Trans-Baikal Territory and the Republic Buryatia is concentrated, respectively, 57% and 36% (93% in total) of the sheep population. Thus, there are significant competitive advantages in the development of the industry, the production of mutton and wool within the Far Eastern Federal District. The necessity of integration and joint actions of the above-mentioned regions is substantiated, proposals are formulated and made in The Ministry of Agriculture in the Russian Federation, to other executive and legislative au‑ thorities for the development of sheep breeding.

The article deals with the problem of social self-determination of student youth and the influence on this process of regional identification caused by the entry of the TransBaikal Territory into the Far Eastern Federal District. The authors present the results and conclusions of a questionnaire survey of students of Trans-Baikal universities conducted within the framework of a large-scale sociological project “Social Self-Determination of Youth in the Formation of a New Regional Identity (Based on the Materials of the TransBaikal Territory and the Republic of Buryatia)”. The project is based on the idea of the interrelation between two scientific categories – “regional identity” and “social selfdetermination”. Moreover, regional identity is considered not only as a traditionally and historically grounded territorial and cultural identification, but as an artificially created geographical, economically conditioned territorial reality, which originates from November 4, 2018, when the Trans-Baikal Territory and the Republic of Buryatia were transferred from the Siberian Federal District to the Far Eastern Federal District by the Decree of President Vladimir Putin. The authors understand social self-determination as the inclusion of a person in all spheres of society, a person’s awareness and achievement of a stable position in the system of social relations. The components of social self-determination of student youth were identified: socio-professional self-determination, socio-political self-determination and socio-cultural self-determination within the framework of the studied missile defense. The analysis of the survey results allowed the authors to determine: (1) the most typical professional and motivational profiles and strategies of professional self-determination of Trans-Baikal students; (2) political orientations and attitudes of Trans-Baikal student youth in socio-political self-determination; (3) value orientations and life position in socio-cultural self-determination. The authors used the method of “layer proximity” identifying the level of regional identification of students of Trans-Baikal universities. The analysis of the identification profiles of the interviewed students showed that the new regional reality (I am a Far Easterner), artificially created for certain state purposes, has not yet entered the consciousness of the student youth and is not perceived by them as “close” and “native”. But in fact this is a strategic level of regional identity associated with the construction of a new regional image, the positioning of a new territorial entity, the invention of new territorial traditions and the formation of a new symbolic policy.

Институтом экономических исследований Дальневосточного отделения Российской академии наук, при поддержке Научного Совета по вопросам регионального развития при Президиуме РАН, издается научный журнал «Пространственная экономика».

The article deals with topical issues related to current trends in the provision of comfortable housing for residents of the Far Eastern Federal District (FEFD). The purpose of the work is to identify, based on the analysis of statistical and sociological data, the features of the state of the housing stock of the macroregion, which has spatial significance, and show relevant tools for solving these regional problems. On the basis of the general scientific dialectical approaches used by the authors, the following is shown: relative quantitative and qualitative parameters of the housing stock of the Far Eastern Federal District, differentiation of the regions — subjects of the Russian Federation by housing provision for the population and housing improvement, the degree of satisfaction with housing according to surveys of residents, provision of the Far Eastern Federal District with the infrastructure of mortgage lending, debt on housing loans. The macro-regions of Russia and the regions of the Far Eastern Federal District are ranked according to the specific indicator of housing provision and improvement of the housing stock in 2020. The specific of the situation of the Far Eastern Federal District at the national level and intra-macro-regional differences are identified. The measures applied by the State, in particular, mortgage housing lending for individuals, are assessed, the differentiated results of the use of the Far Eastern Mortgage program by the population are analyzed, taking into account provision of the Far Eastern Federal District with financial infrastructure. It is concluded that housing is a component that is significant for various spatial levels. Additional financing of the FEFD regions since 2014 at the expense of state programs has not affected the growth of the housing stock of the FEFD, which, in terms of specific indicators of housing provision, is marked by values below the Russian average for the entire three-year period (2018-2020). This macro-region is distinguished at the national level by the lowest values of the housing stock owned by citizens. In a number of regions of the Far Eastern Federal District, there is an obvious need to improve the quality of housing (the Republic of Buryatia and the Trans-Baikal Territory). The State mortgage program in the macroregion is the only opportunity to purchase housing, taking into account the debt burden of the population, the decrease in nominal and real incomes, the presence of unemployment, incl. hidden, reduction in the number of credit institutions (rehabilitation of banks in recent years).

In order to achieve the goals of full food supply to the population and at the same time more rational and efficient use of limited resources (land, labor, material and technical, etc.), it is advisable to use an integrated assessment of the resource potential of the agro-food systems of the regions. In the Far Eastern Federal District, there is a significant heterogeneity of the resource potential of regional agro-food systems. Khabarovsk and Kamchatka Territories, Magadan Region, the Republic of Sakha and the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug have extremely low land potential. In the same regions (except the Kamchatka Territory), there is a low social and labor potential. In the Trans-Baikal Territory, the Republic of Buryatia, the Republic of Sakha, the Jewish Autonomous Region and the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, measures are needed to increase the availability of funds and the stock of labor in the agricultural sector. Some Far Eastern territories with an excess of agricultural land (the Republics of Buryatia, the Trans-Baikal Territory, the Jewish Autonomous Region), but low production and rental opportunities, remain without labor and investment, continue to lose the already dilapidated material and technical base and cannot provide their own population with food. At the same time, in these regions, it is the land resource that is in excess that can be considered as a comparative competitive advantage. However, an unfavorable combination of resource groups, to a certain extent a consequence of destructive socio-economic policy, does not ensure a balanced territorial development of the country and hinders the progressive development of agro-food systems in many of its regions. The results of the potential assessment obtained in the course of the study can be used to identify «problem areas» in the resource provision of agro-food systems of regions, optimize the parameters of the territorial distribution of productive forces, deepen specialization, as well as substantiate the volume of state support.

The article analyzes the epizootic situation in the Republic of Buryatia, considers veterinary problems associated with the special geographical status of the region, which is located in the southeast of the Russian Federation. The republic borders on Mongolia, the Trans-Baikal Territory, which has common borders with China. The intensification of international trade, tourism, interstate movement of various goods, animals, the deterioration of the epizootic situation in the world, the lack of anti-epizootic measures in the new economic conditions increase the risk of outbreaks of dangerous diseases. The occurrence of anthrax was caused by insufficient accounting and lack of passportization of old burial sites, cattle burial grounds, grazing of unvaccinated cattle on unfavorable pastures, activation of soil anthrax outbreaks. Taking into account these and other risks of possible outbreaks of anthrax, epizootic well-being is maintained in the republic through preventive vaccination of susceptible animals. The territorial proximity of adjacent territories epizootically unfavorable for rabies (Mongolia, the Trans-Baikal Territory), favorable environmental conditions for foxes (steppes and mountain slopes, the valley of the Selenga, Dzhida and their tributaries), the presence of a large number of susceptible animals, were the main components of the development of the epizootic process of rabies among foxes, whose attacks have caused cases of rabies among farm animals, in particular cattle. Infectious nodular dermatitis of cattle had serious consequences for the agricultural sector of the Trans-Baikal Territory, the Republic of Buryatia, where livestock is mainly concentrated in personal subsidiary plots and is of great help in the economic and social life of the villagers. In this regard, it is necessary to expand monitoring of the disease in the Far Eastern and Siberian Federal Districts and adjacent regions. The southeastern territories of the Russian Federation are defined as areas of risk for FMD. Carrying out specific prevention of foot-and-mouth disease makes it possible to contain the factors of the epizootic risk of foot-and-mouth disease in transboundary territories and in general in the Republic of Buryatia.

Introduction. New viral respiratory infections in humans make it possible to speak of corona viruses as extremely dangerous human pathogens. They are characterized by a high mortality rate and pose a significant medical and social threat to society due to life-threatening complications of the disease. In this regard, it seems necessary to answer the questions about the dynamics of mortality of the population of the region for different classes of ICD-10 in the prepandemic and pandemic period, including various nosological forms of respiratory diseases. Aim. To assess the degree of influence of the pandemic of the new respiratory coronavirus infection COVID-19 on the mortality rate of the population for various classes of ICD-10, including the class “Diseases of the respiratory system” in the Far Eastern Federal District.Materials and methods. To implement the tasks of the study, a complex of analytical, epidemiological and statistical studies was carried out. Methods used: descriptive statistics, epidemiological analysis and monitoring; mathematical; structural and comparative analysis, methods of time series analysis and content analysis of publications on the problem. Epidemiological and statistical assessment of mortality was carried out on the basis of ICD-10 using the database of the Federal State Statistics Service for 1999-2020 in the territory of the Far Eastern Federal District. For the analysis and processing of statistical information, modern information systems and computer programs (MS Excel-2016) were used. Results. The pandemic of COVID-19 has had a significant impact on the level and structure of mortality across the entire spectrum of the main causes of death, and its magnitude (98.8 per 100,000, 2020), as a new cause of death, exceeds the whole the class of causes of death ICD-10 (J00-J99) by 33.3%, changing the pace and direction of demographic processes in Russia. At the same time, the dynamics of mortality due to respiratory diseases is unprecedented, the level of which in the Russian Federation in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic increased by 38.8%, and in the Far Eastern Federal District – by 27.7% against the background of the previous long-term stable a downward trend in mortality rates. Especially high growth rates of mortality rates are observed in pneumonia, the level of which has increased by 3.5 times over the last decade, and among city residents – by 4.2 times (Amur Region). Features of the socio-economic and natural-climatic living conditions of the population of the region determine a significant differentiation of regions in terms of mortality rates, including due to respiratory diseases, the gradients of which among the subjects of the Far Eastern Federal District in the first year of the pandemic period (2020) amounted to 2.5 times with a minimum the level in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (40.9 per 100,000 population) and the maximum – in the Jewish Autonomous Region (101.7 per 100,000 population), which indicates the ambiguous degree of influence of the new viral infection on the dynamics of mortality. At the same time, the variability in mortality rates due to respiratory diseases in the previous period (1999-2019) was even more pronounced, and among the subjects of the Far Eastern Federal District, during this period, higher mortality rates were also demonstrated, which are not even comparable to the current level of the pandemic period. These circumstances require a detailed study and a substantive analysis of the degree of influence of a COVID-19 on the mortality rate of the population using mechanisms and methods for its detection, record and registration. Conclusion. The pandemic of COVID19 had a significant impact on the level and structure of mortality across the entire spectrum of major causes of death, especially in the ICD-10 class “Respiratory diseases”, changing the pace and direction of demographic processes.

Introduction: Today, demographic issues are in the focus of attention in a whole number of countries. Birth rate is one of the most important indicators largely dependent on the level of reproductive health of the population. Patterns of health and sexual behavior, including the use of contraception, are among the significant direct factors of reproductive health. Objective: To analyze health and sexual (contraceptive) behavior as determinants of reproductive health in Russians. Materials and methods: This is the secondary analysis of responses of the formalized surveys conducted by the Analytical Center “National Agency for Financial Research” in 2024 involving 3,000 respondents, by the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center in 2023 involving 1,845 respondents, and by the “Mikhailov and Partners. Analytics” Agency in 2021 covering 2,005 people, all devoted to issues of reproductive and sexual health and behavior. SPSS Statistics and Microsoft Excel were used for data analysis. Results: The Russians consider sexually transmitted diseases to be the main risk factor for reproductive health, so they pay more attention to practicing safe sex than to being able to conceive and bear a child (8.64 versus 6.43 out of 10). Barrier (condoms) and calendar methods of birth control are popular with 65 % and 26 % of the respondents, respectively, while 21 % of the respondents do not use contraceptives. Less than 35 % examine their reproductive health annually. Only 38 % of the respondents are ready to use assisted reproductive technologies to overcome infertility. Conclusions: Reproductive health of Russian people is at risk because of low efficiency of contraceptive behavior noted for predominance of the rhythm method of birth control and refusal of contraceptives due to misinformation about their side effects and low health activity in the field of reproduction and sex, including a lack of interest in assisted reproductive technologies.

Human resources are an important and integral part of the successful functioning of any space. Every branch of the national economy needs qualified and competent employees. Modern conditions caused by economic instability and risks, both in the internal and external political field, form a certain personnel deficit. Today, one of the priority courses of the national economy is the agricultural sector, which is designed to ensure the country's food security. In this context, it is relevant to study the main parameters of the development of human resources in the field of agricultural production at the regional level. The purpose of the study is to analyze the labor resources in the regions that belong to the Baikal natural territory, which allows us to determine their impact on the basic indicators of the development of the agricultural sector in these regions. The research methodology is based on a retrospective analysis using comparison and comparison methods. The information and empirical basis for the analysis was provided by data from regional statistical reporting, as well as data from industry institutions. The object of the study is three regions belonging to the Baikal macroregion, located since 2018 on the territory of two federal districts — Siberian and Far Eastern. The scientific novelty lies in the formation of a general trend in the development of regions and the identification of some changes related to the fact that the Republic of Buryatia and the Trans-Baikal Territory became part of the Far Eastern Federal District in 2018. The conducted research showed the level of differentiation in the socio-economic development of the three regions, which largely determines migration processes and further influences the formation of key agri-food indicators.