ISSN 2079-9705, Regional Research of Russia, 2019, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 267–277. © Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2019. Russian Text © The Author(s), 2019, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Seriya Geograficheskaya, 2019, No. 3, pp. 00000–00000. REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT Spatial Differentiation of the Standard of Living in the Population as a Representation of Disproportions in Socioeconomic Development: A Case Study of Belgorod Oblast N. V. Chugunovaa, * and N. V. Likhnevskayaa aBelgorod National Research University, Belgorod, 308015 Russia *e-mail:
[email protected] Received February 25, 2019; revised February 25, 2019; accepted April 4, 2019 Abstract—The article considers spatial differences in the standard of living in the population on a regional scale within Belgorod oblast; along with other regions, this federal subject is exposed to federal reforms being implemented in the socioeconomic sphere. The study determines approaches to analyzing the standard of liv- ing (SOL) and establishes its main measures. Intraregional differentiation of the SOL components is investi- gated, extensively using GIS technologies. The component-based study has revealed that the extent of dispro- portions among municipalities is particularly large for social and socioeconomic indicators, representing a decline in the number of enterprises in the social sphere and the number of employed persons in countryside. Agroholdings were found to play a significant role in the change in SOL indicators and settlement pattern of the rural population. The outcome of the research is a typology of municipal and urban districts according to their level of socioeconomic development based on the synthetic SOL measure, which has brought to light extensive intraregional disproportions.