title: Is Today’s South of Russia Polyethnic?
abstract: The current intensification of transformation processes in Russian society against the backdrop of significantly increased global turbulence calls for a focus on spatial development, which, in turn, requires a more detailed and sound vision of the ethnodemographic specifics of the territory. Based on a multiscale analysis of data from the 2021 All-Russian Population Census, the paper highlights the features of the ethnic structure of the South of Russia (Southern and North Caucasian federal dist
journal: Regional Research of Russia