Urban Settlement System in Sakhalin Region: Results of the Post-Soviet Transformation

Abstract

The author analyzes the trends in the post-Soviet structural and demographic transformation of the network of urban settlements of the Sakhalin. It is shown, how the urbanization process in the region entered a crisis phase, and numerous cities and urban-type settlements, despite largescale projects for the development of Sakhalin oil and gas, lost a significant part of their economic and demographic potential as a result of the economic reforms of the 1990s.