ИСТИНА

For Russia, various types of recurrent mobilities are currently recognized. Apart of migration in its narrow sense, such as temporal working migration (commuting journeys and long-term ones, and tourism of different kind etc.) a specific type of seasonal and weekend mobility is widely spread. This phenomenal ‘dacha’, or second-house, mobility is specific for the country. Generally, working migrations are typical only for largest metropolitan areas (mainly for conurbations of 1 million inhabitants or over) and unevenly developed industrial regions. Normally a combination of income, social benefits, and inverse housing prices inequalities is responsible for maintaining the sustainable population flows between suburban zones and conurbation cores. In other words, the working migration rate accurately reflects the level of spatial centre-periphery inequity of inner regional development. However, the reverse dacha type mobility from urban areas to countryside houses mainly for recreational reasons being a special focus of the research. Distribution of dacha-type mobility is universal within the country and comprises nearly every second household in Russia. The research covers different aspects of dacha mobility: (1) the history of dachas, (2) definitions, consideration or assessments of the phenomenon; (3) the reasons for the social super scales of the Russian dacha; (4) a conclusion with an attempt to specify several types of dachas. Several historical periods in dachas formation in Russia with different type of buildings and different spatial forms are distinguished.