The Phenomenon of Global Cities and the Agglomeration Policy of the Russian Federation

The contemporary perception of the global cities phenomenon is reviewed within the paper. of The bill about urban agglomerations’ research, supplemented by the analysis of the statistic data about the economic and human resources’ allocation among Russian cities and regions, enabled us to conclude that the State’s efforts are insufficient for formation new global cities beside the existing Moscow agglomeration. A contemporary agglomeration policy of Russia can’t be considered as effective and is to be corrected, taking into account the network approach ideas, which sight at formation of polycentric agglomerations.