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Features of dynamics of cultivated area of agricultural crops during the crisis period of 1990–2012 are identified. Factors causing differently directed changes at the local level are shown on the case study of Kursk oblast. It is found that in contrast to the interregional scale at the intraregional level the leading role is played by the following factors: location of the district on the axis of “center-periphery”, nearborder location, the presence of large developing industrial hubs.
Nekrich et al. (Wed,) studied this question.