Suburbanization is the most typical process that defines the development of urbanized areas in Central and Eastern Europe. However, in Ukraine, except for the largest cities, suburbanization process seems to be underestimated. This paper is trying to estimate the actual extent of suburbanization in Ukraine, find out the relationship between the city size and the development of suburbanization, reveal regional peculiarities, and finally, evaluate successfulness of the common urban evolution

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... ies in explanation of empirical evidence from one of the largest Eastern European countries. Analysis is based on the data on migration dynamics in urban cores, peri-urban areas and hinterlands of 65 cities with a population of over 40,000 located in 22 regions of Ukraine. It was found out that suburbanization processes in Ukraine are extremely widespread and define general course of current urban evolution. Migration growth of peri-urban area, comparing with main city and hinterland, is observed in more than half of studied cities (53%), including all cities with population over 100,000. Urban dynamics in Ukraine seems to be rather evolutionary than involutionary and therefore similar to other Eastern European countries. However, large-scale restructuring of the economy in post-Soviet period had a critical role for the development of individual and regional differences in urban development and caused several biases from "normal" urban evolution: some patterns and stages are rather debatable and may essentially differ from their classical Western prototypes. Verification of these conclusions can be done through further in-depth research of certain cases.