According to experts, urbanists in the country will disappear in the coming decades, about 300 cities. So people leave from Novokuznetsk, in the recent past of the economic center of Siberia. There are several reasons: there is no work, bad ecology, rampant crime. The level of benzopyrene in the atmosphere exceeds the maximum permissible concentration 4 times. More than 11 thousand crimes are committed annually in the city. For comparison - in the Chechen capital Grozny - only 1 thousand.

50 kilometers from Vladivostok is the city of Artem. The closure of the mine in 2000 allowed to improve the ecological situation in the city, but the economic component. Work in the city is only at Artemovskaya TPP and the international airport "Vladivostok". Where there is no work, crime flourishes. Artem leads the region in terms of the number of drug addicts and the number of crimes committed. Young people move to Vladivostok.

Verkhoyansk was once the place of exile. It is one of the smallest settlements in the Russian Federation, having the status of a city and one of the coldest cities not only in Russia, but also in the world. The population of the city is now about 1200 people.

"City of Brides", the regional center of Ivanovo, according to experts, will also disappear by 2100. The birth rate is falling, the people are moving to Moscow, where prospects are better.

City of gold diggers Artemovsk (Olkhovka) also dies.

There are gold and silver reserves, but their industrial production ceased about 20 years ago. Reforms of 1990 finished the town. Over the past 50 years, the city's population has declined 5 times. Now it is less than 2 thousand people.

The population of Norilsk is rapidly declining. From 213 thousand in 2006 remained to 2016 only 177 thousand. But at all corners of advertising ad home in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Destiny is fateful and Vorkuta. In 2006, there were 79 thousand people, in 2016 - 57 thousand.