Metropolitan and peripheral Russia

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Moscow International Business Centre. The city of Moscow is highly-developed and considered part of metropolitan Russia.

The village of Alkhasty [ru] in the republic of Ingushetia. Ingushetia is Russia's poorest federal subject, and the North Caucasus is part of peripheral Russia.

Metropolitan Russia (Russian: Метрополия России, romanized: Metropoliya Rossii, lit. 'metropole of Russia') is a geopolitical term defining areas considered to be Russia's "core". It is largely economically developed and historically home to ethnic Russians. Metropolitan Russia is contrasted with peripheral Russia.