When applying these criteria from among urban settlements, the village of Nua and the city of Mustl would have fallen (the number of employees in real industries amounted to 30 and 29.1% of the population, respectively).
According to the zones of influence, the number of inhabitants, the architectural and planning structure, the appearance, the level of improvement and a number of other signs, these settlements lag behind most urban settlements of the republic and are in reality more rural than urban. The next significant criterion is the place of settlement in the resettlement system. The republic can be represented consisting of a hierarchical series of socio-production territorial zones, the centers of which are, as a rule, the largest, geographically favorable settlements. This principle is the basis for building a system of settlements in a promising scheme of resettlement of the republic. Scheme of socio-production zones, the rank of settlements and types of service, where it is clear that the jump in the rank and number of service institutions takes place in the group of local centers.
This is due to a more significant expansion of their influence zone than the lower settlements in the rank. One of the signs of the urban settlement should be considered the presence of a set of institutions in it at least primary and daily services. In this case, he can be the center. Employed in non -production industries should be more than 20%. The value of the settlement is also a very significant criterion for the assignment of settlements as a group of urban or rural. The larger the population, the more reason to attribute it to the urban type, since the value of the settlement is approximately proportional to the number of city -forming personnel, t. e. employed in industry, transport and t. p.