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The issue of regional development in relation to the reproduction of human capital is becoming increasingly urgent every year. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the potential for redistributing human resources within meso- and macro-territorial systems. Using the example of the Volga-Ural macro-region in Russia, the main areas with varying growth potential are considered. Special attention is given to the semi-peripheral or equilibrium zone.

The article offers the typology of approaches to understanding and developing the «center-periphery» model. In general, these approaches can be divided into two groups: structural and functional approaches and the approaches based on relations between parts of the periphery of the system.