Search

... the provision of banking, public, information and communication services as the basis for activating the innovation process. The study is carried out on urban and rural municipalities of the Leningrad region. Special attention is paid to the spatial factor in concentration of service renders. It is revealed that there is a significant gap in innovation susceptibility both between urban and rural settlements, and within rural settlements, depending on their proximity to a densely populated urban agglomeration,...

For Russian rural areas, the level of transport accessibility is increasingly a decisive factor in socio-economic development. Since this process has long been self-regulated and secondary among the tasks of regional development, today not all opportunities to improve transport accessibility in remote rural areas are fully or partially used....

... position of the Kaliningrad region makes it difficult to justify a long-term strategy of its socio-economic development. Most of the previously developed strategies were based on export and / or import-substitution, proceeding from the advan­tageous geographical position in the coastal zone and the region’s proximity to economically developed countries and Russian regions. Deterioration of polit­ical relations and the weakening of socio-economic ties between Russia and the West diminished chances ...

The article describes the formation of the national territory of Lithuania during the interwar period. The author compares factors, which affected the formation of the Lithuanian statehood, analyses the country’s relations with the neighbouring states ... ... degree of dependence on external influence and numerous internal weakness of the country influenced the establishment of the geographical borders of Lithuania. 1. Внешняя политика СССР : сб. док. : в 5 т. / отв. ред. С....

... article deals with the development of the Canadian military industry in 1939-1945. The effectiveness, organisation and scale of production of aircraft, ships, armored vehicles, artillery and small arms are analyzed. The author reveals the influence of geographic, economic, home and foreign policy factors on the type of weapons produced and the volume of their production. Using official Canadian documents and statistical publications, the author concludes that the military-industrial complex of Canada showed good performance indicators during WWII....

This article examines the origins and development of the public history movement in America. Special attention is paid to analysing ideas and approaches dominant at different stages of its development and identifying factors behind changes in major trends. It is shown that pubic history has undergone significant transformations abandoning the idea of professionalising non-academic history for that of collaborative structuring of the past by historians and the general ...

... chains is characteristic of Russia in general, nevertheless it exhibits significant territorial differences. An attempt to identify the factors behind these differences through calculating the correlation coefficient made it possible to detect only one factor, whose value is close to essential: the geographical remoteness from Moscow. However, many regions of central Russia have a low share of retail chains. One cannot exclude that a significant role in the development of interregional differences is played by institutional factors, which can become ...

The role of tourism as one of the priority of regional development is grounded. The positive and negative factors of transforming tourism into the leading branch of the Economy of the Kaliningrad Oblast are formulated. The existing programmes targeting the tourism development are examined. There is characteristic of tourism services in Kaliningrad region ...

... border area. Particular attention is paid to its transit, intercapital geogra­phi­cal position, and the impact of transport development on regional growth. The author remarks that in modern conditions, transport connectivity acts as the most important factor in the integrity of the Union State.

... analysis of statistical data, indices of consulting companies, as well as comprehensive studies carried out by economists and geographers, the world financial centers are differentiated by the functions they perform within the GFC network. Global financial ... ... some types, and a number of conclusions have been formulated about the trends in the transformation of the GFC network and the factors determining this process. The author has identified promising points of growth and new macroregions of the world financial ...

... Russia and its dynamics are subject to the general laws of spatial development of the economy and demography, the most im­portant of which is polarization. At the same time, regional settlement sys­tems differ greately due to both physical and economic geographical factors, which may show some discrepencies because of the vast country's territory. These differences are taken into account in the Spatial Development Strategy of the Russian Federation, but require further study through identification of criteria for ...

... Druzhinin A. G. The coastalisation of population in today’s Russia: A sociogeo­graphical explication // Baltic region. 2017. Vol. 9, № 2. P. 19—30. doi: 10.5922/ 2074-9848-2017-2-2. 10. Zelinsky W. The Hypothesis of the Mobility Transition // Geographical Re­view. 1971. № 61. P. 219—249. 11. Iden G., Richter C. Factors Associated with Population Mobility in the Atlantic Coastal Plains Region // Land Economics. 1971. Vol. 47, № 2. P. 189—193. 12. Fulanda B., Munga C., Ohtomi J. et al. The structure and evolution of the coastal migrant fishery of Kenya // ...

... transition to extensive agricul­tural production are caused by combined influence of natural, socio-economic and political factors. The periods of decline in agricultural land use coincided with years of economic and political crises. The onset of periods ... ... prox­imity // Research Policy. 2003. № 32 (5). P. 751—770. doi: 10.1016/S0048-7333(02)00084-7. 24. Fujita M., Thisse J. Does geographical agglomeration foster economic growth? and who gains and loses from it? // Japanese Economic Review. 2003. № 54 ...

... formation and transformation of a territorial community. There are different types of proximities within the territorial community: geographic, formative, dominant interaction and development proximities among others. Using clusters as an example the author ... ... real services // Industrial districts and local economic regeneration. Geneva, 1992. P. 177—96. 18. Korotka M. A. Proximity factors influencing academics’ decisions to cooperate with industrial organizations // Regional Studies. 2015. № 2 (1). P....

... problems in mutual relations, both sides suffer economic losses, and their competitors win. In general, the economy of the Kaliningrad region is developing faster than in most regions of the Russian Federation, and, it can be assume that one of the factors is its geographical situation. These factors must necessarily be taken into account when justifying the strategy of the region’s social and economic development. 1. Бакланов П. Я., Ганзей С. С. Приграничные и трансграничные ...

... inherent of various forms of interactions within the territorial socio-economic system of a region. The author offers a classification of spatial networks, identifies and describes types of spatial boundaries of different types of territorial communities: geographic, organizational, cognitive, cultural, institutional, social and technological. The complex of factors and conditions that influence the dynamics of the boundaries of spatial networking are defined. 1. Анимица Е. Г., Шарыгин М. Д. Социально-экономическая география и региональная экономика: ...

... demarcation’ and ‘tourist zoning’. The earlier proposed components of competitiveness index help identify four major groups of factors of recreation zone differentiation. The recreation zoning of the Kaliningrad region was carried out in view of the geopolitical ... ... von. L. Zu einer allgemeinen Systemlehre // Biologia Generalis.1949. № 195. S. 114—129. 9. Pirozhnik I. I. Economic and geographic problems of formation of territorial recreational systems and recreational division into districts in large economic ...