The proportion of native Muscovites in the capital is known. The data were revealed by Alesya Gracheva, senior researcher at IOGEN RAS' Population Genetics Laboratory, and were carried out as part of the DNA Identification program.
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“The proportion of people with Russian citizenship born in Moscow in three generations is only 5%,” said the expert.
According to her, there is a large number of people migrating to megacities so the main population is a group of mixed origins. In addition, they are more actively reproducing their families, for example, if most Muscovite women give birth to one or two children, then the wives of migrants give birth to 3-4 children.
In addition, Gracheva talks about the regions where representatives of different ethnic groups live. In the Central Administrative District of Moscow, especially in the Arbat, there are higher concentrations of several different ethnic groups: Armenians, Jews, Tatars, Ukrainians, Azerbaijanis, Georgians, Moldovans and others. For example, there are many Tajiks and Uzbeks in Biryulyovo in the West and East.
Previously, the contribution of migrants to the Moscow economy highly appreciated experts from the University of Economics (HSE). Thus, from 2017 to 2023, permanent migrants (who moved to Moscow from other regions of Russia and from abroad no more than 5 years ago), commuters, circular workers and international labor migrants provided about 23-25 % of GRP.
