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THE NEWEST FACTORS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF URBANIZATION IN RUSSIA In the post-Soviet period urbanization in Russia, going along with general socio-economic transformations, has developed quite diversely in cities, different in size, administrative status, functional specialization and geographical situation. At the same time, this for the first glance seeming chaotic movement fits quietly into global trends of urbanization and shows a number of distinct, including spatial-geographical, patterns. At the same time, the Soviet inertia of urbanization processes, though often transformed, also exerted its influence, complicating the overall picture. In the post-Soviet period there are three distinct waves of dominating factors in development of Russian urbanization. These waves of factors actions did not change clearly chronologically and spatially, but, quite in the spirit of the laws of wave geodynamics, spread in accordance with the centre-periphery model, on the one hand, and in accordance with the points of application of economic and political efforts on the other. The main drivers of the first wave in the 1990s – first half of the 2000s were the development of the oil and gas industry, trade and housing construction. The second wave in the second half of the 2000s was formed by efforts to develop the urban environment and to regularize the formation of agglomerations and certainly will continue for the foreseeable future. The transition from the first wave to the second can be related (or generally characterized) as a trend of transition from rental mechanisms of urbanization to agglomerative. Finally, it is possible to identify just emerging wave of the newest factors in the development of urbanization, which in many respects passes through a latent stage of development if we measure it according to the actual impact on urbanization processes. This wave is aimed yet at long-term development prospects for cities and is definitely related with the digital and green economy. Key-words: urbanization, Russia, agglomeration, urban environment, digital economy, green economy.