Attention is focused on the problem of intensive privatization of Russian urbanUrban space spaceSpace (primarily MoscowMoscow) by large capital and the construction of multistory housing by private businessesHousing business for millions of migrantsMigrants from other regions of the country. The idea of cottage urban development, rejected in developed market economies, is argued by the authoritiesAuthorities to concentrate capital and labor in the so-called “locomotives of development” (“poles of growth”). The authors believe that the criterion for the optimality of such construction should be not the profit of private investors, but its social expediency and the interests of all regions of the federal stateState, as well as the long-term goals of national regional policyPolicy. The vast majority of high-rise buildings in the world are built in the zone of positive average monthly outdoor temperatures. In RussiaRussia, the coldest country in the world, few structural materials are able to withstand constant temperature fluctuations around the freezing point. It is emphasized that Central RussiaCentral Russia (first of all, the cities with “millions”), due to the better stateState of infrastructure, social sphere, higher wages, etc., will inevitably benefit as a result of mass housing construction. Construction companies, like pumps, will continue to “pull” the population into large cities, contributing to its economically and socially unjustified concentration in the center of the country, which ultimately threatens to depopulate other territories and generate intractable geopolitical and geosocial problems in the near future.