Communicational ties between the Republic of Bashkortostan and other Russian regions based on voice cell phone data
Journal: GEOGRAPHY ENVIRONMENT SUSTAINABILITY
Year: 2020

The article aims to present social ties of the Republic of Bashkortostan based on voice cell phone data, which covers 12 million calls from and to the region during the first five days of March 2020. About 96% of calls are made within the republic and only 4% of them are interregional. The people of the Republic of Bashkortostan have close connections with those who live in neighboring regions (Orenburg, Sverdlovsk oblast, the Republic of Tatarstan and especially Chelyabinsk oblast). Being a par