Zróżnicowanie rozwoju ekonomicznego regionów federacji rosyjskiej

The main aim of this article is an analysis of the spatial differentiation of economic development for the regions of the Russian Federation with five basic macroeconomic variables, namely: unemployment rates registered, investment per capita, GDP per capita, per capita assets and wages in the years 2000–2009. The work reflects on 79 regions of the Russian Federation, and the data used for the analysis comes from the Russian Statistical Office (Федеральная служба госу дарственной статистики – Росст ат; www.gks.ru). The basic method of the analysis is based on the taxonomic index Euclidean. The spatial differentiation of the regional development of the Russian Federation shows the specificity and nature of Russian economy. The analysis leads to the conclusion that in terms of the variables analyzed the most developed regions are industrial and commercial, while the least developed regions have agricultural character.