Migration Growth in January-April 2019: Abnormal Indices

Nikita V. Mkrtchyan – Leading Researcher of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Candidate of Geographic Sciences (Moscow, Russia). E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Yulia F. Florinskaya – Leading Researcher of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Candidate of Geographic Sciences (Moscow, Russia). E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Migration growth of Russian households has sharply increased in January-April 2019 exceeding data for the respective period of all previous ten years. Number of foreign labor migrants slightly increased while the share of those among them legalized at the labor market reduced.

Key words: migration, long-term migration, temporary migration, internal Russian migration, work permits, patents.