These projections are somewhat at variance with those offered by United Nation experts in 2012. The latter pointed to Nizhny Novgorod as the Russian city which is losing population most rapidly – a projected 12 percent by 2025 – followed by Novosibirsk, Omsk, Chelyabinsk, Volgograd and Voronezh (unhabitat.org/pmss/listItemDetails.aspx?publicationID=3387).
