SOCIO-SPATIAL DIFFERENTIATION OF THE POPULATION OF THE RUSSIAN PROVINCIAL TOWN AT THE END OF XIX - THE BEGINNING OF XX CENTURY: SOURCES, METHODS, RESEARCH PROBLEMS (on materials of the provincial centers of the Central Chernozem region)

Research of interrelation of spatial and social structures in the Russian provincial town at the end of XIX - the beginning of XX century is one of the actual directions of modern urbanistics. Problems of spatial differentiation of the population of the provincial center are considered. Social aspects of a question of ownership of city real estate are researched. Possibilities of use of data of the mass sources processed and brought in electronic databases with subsequent their visualization on cartographic materials of the specific city for research of social and professional, class, property spatial differentiation of the population of the Russian provincial town at the end of XIX - the beginning of XX century are analyzed. The complex combination of class and class elements of the Russian society of the end of XIX - the beginning of XX has found reflection in social zoning of a provincial town. The topographical dualism in the provincial center of the agrarian region has been expressed less contrastively than in capital cities and large industrial centers. However, spatial placement of separate national groups allows to speak about a certain social segregation and stigmatization as result of manifestation of social stratification.

city real estate, province, social and spatial differentiation of the population, urban population