Russian City as a Philosophical Category of Urban Studies

The article evaluates the present state of Russian cities. Urban studies interpret urban space philosophically. A city is seen as a unique world of modern personality and society development. The author surveys the city typology in Russia, determines specific life features of urban population in different types of cities. The progress of the urban space influences the level of Russian society development as a whole. It determines its achievements and prospects. Russian city is a unique phenomenon. It forms the image of the country by a set of criteria that are defined in the article. Provincial towns, industrial centers and megacities contribute to the features of Russian urbanization in the contemporary period. The standards of living, the pace of industrial and post-industrial development, the vectors of spiritual evolution of cities define the philosophical idea of the Russian urban space.