Аннотация:The paper focuses on garden partnerships of urbanites which is the most widespread
type of second home settlement in Russia. Approximately, one third of the national population
has their own dacha (a typical seasonal second home), in some regions they form quite dense
settlement structures in suburbs and boost seasonal mobility. However, there are differences in
spatial structures of such seasonal settlements in different regions and areas. The paper
illustrates multifaceted seasonal suburbanisation patterns in the Moscow area, the St.
Petersburg area, resort areas of the Russian South and areas with comparatively low number of
second homes. Furthermore, it identifies main factors affecting the number of second homes in
a municipal district and determine the structure of dacha settlement in a region. As a garden
partnership is not only the settlement type, but a legal form, it covered by official statistics, in
particular by agricultural censuses. The final issue of the paper is the analysis of changes in
spatial structures of garden partnerships in regions of Russia which is based on census data
comparability study for the 2006/2016 agricultural censuses.