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Бейби-бум в Городе невест (Иваново), рост рождаемости по области в 2007 г. - 7.8%, количество семей с двумя и более детьми увеличилось почти на четверть, и даже перепрофилирование региона с поставок жён иностранным женихам к переселению женихов из зарубежа в наши края...

"The Ivanovo region has the highest ratio of women to men in Russia, a legacy of the Soviet textile mills that imported female workers from across the country. The city, which once helped marriage bureaus recruit young women for foreign spouses, is now enticing residents to stay and raise families. That's fuelling a baby boom as Russia struggles to stem a population decline.

``When I get in the lift of our building, I'm surrounded by so many kids it makes me think of rabbits,'' Wilsdon, 32, says at the 12th floor apartment he shares with Anna, 29, in Ivanovo.

Since the Soviet Union broke up in 1991, Russia's population has dwindled 4.1 percent to 142.2 million. Unless fertility rates improve, the population may plunge to 128 million by 2025, the Washington-based World Bank said in November.

By contrast, births in the Ivanovo region jumped 7.8 percent last year, four times the pace of 2006, according to national statistics. The number of second children in families rose by a record 24 percent, more than double the Russian average.

With the death rate declining and the outflow of people reversed, city officials expect the population will stop shrinking this year for the first time since the Soviet era."

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