Population dynamics and evolution of suburban settlements of the Moscow region and their consequences for environment and population

The Moscow Region is a part of the largest capital region in the Russian Federation with diversified social and economic potential and specific demographic characteristics.
Moscow has always transfered part of capital functions to suburbs. At the same time Moscow Region played a role of the "buffer" constraining a centripetal flow of migrants regulated by methods of a planned economy. As a result by the beginning of market transformations of the 1990th spatial placement of the population in Moscow Region wasn't responsible to market economy characteristics.
During the period between population census 1989 and 2010 there is a tendency of population movement from remote (Kolomna, Orekhovo-Zuevo etc.) to closer to Moscow districts (Balashikha, Khimki etc).
Moscow changes nature of placement of settlements in the Moscow region, it introduces city way of life through dachas. Dachas begin as a curtsey to rural life, but over time become more comfortable and lose the initial functional purpose.
Modern "country" possession of Muscovites – cottages are used not only as seasonal but also as the second constant housing and number of such settlements increases every year.
The way of suburbanization in Moscow Region depends on final decisions about development of the territories included in borders of «Big Moscow».