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... the field of international tourism development is based on the principle of public private partnership. It has been recently acknowledged that the three Baltic States form an integrating region in the field of international tourism and thus affect the Kaliningrad region, North-east Poland, Southern Finland, and partially Belarus. Therefore, Lithuania plays an important role in the integration of the tourist infrastructure of the Kaliningrad region into the tourist system of the Baltics. This study ...

Our country has set a course for the economy modernisation on the basis of innovative development. In the post-war period until 1991, the exclave of Russia — the Kaliningrad region — showed high rates of socioeconomic development due to the establishment of a large-scale sea fishing industry. Such success rested on research and innovative activity. This article analyses the successful innovative development ...

The main goal of this article is to analyse the political risk of Russia with a special emphasis on Kaliningrad. In this study, political risks are assessed using the normative model of macro political risk assessment developed by Alon and Martin in 1998. In this model, political risks are divided into government-, society- and economy-related variables....

This article analyses the causes of the economic decline in the Kaliningrad region in 2008—2009, which was sharper than the Russian average. The author suggests a number of measures aimed to mitigate the consequences of the crisis, expedite its termination, facilitate the return of economic growth and find solutions ...

The author considers peculiarities of the emergence and evolution of exclavity of the Kaliningrad region. The article analyses the influence of exclavity on the connections of the region with the Russian mainland, its economic development, exclave administration, and Kaliningrad identity and examines the ways the existing disadvantages ...

Since the accession of Poland and Lithuania to the EU, the nature, forms and content of their border cooperation with the Kaliningrad region have fundamentally changed. There is a tendency towards strengthening the neighborhood policy. The already gained extensive and varied experience of the participation of the Kaliningrad region in the IN-TERREG Programme contributed ...

Using the example of the Kaliningrad Rail-car Manufacturing Plant, the article analyzes personnel policies and the composition of the workforce at industrial enterprises in the USSR during the early postwar period. The objective of the study is to identify key problems and the ...

Based on unpublished materials from the State Archive of the Kaliningrad region and the Archival department of the administration of the municipal entity “Pravdinsky Urban Dis­trict”, including minutes of general meetings and board sessions of the collective farm, mate­rials from the primary party organization,...

... effect on the historical memory of the population. The impact is especially strong on young people. Therefore, the purpose of the article is to study the perception of the regional history and historical and cultural heritage by the population of the Kaliningrad region. Based on the theory of generations, significant differences in the specifics of the historical memory of generational groups were revealed. Differences were found in the degree of their interest in the periods of the history of the ...

... approach. A historical perspective on the development of scientific research and the training of specialists in the field of geograph­ical science is presented. The article analyzes the scientific and pedagogical activity of the geographical faculty of Kaliningrad State University — Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal Uni­versity on the basis of a retrospective study for 1963—2023. Positive trends and the role of dissertation research in geoecology and oceanology in preparing personnel for scientific ...

The paper studies the data of a comprehensive environmental survey of land plots in several streets (i. e. Basseynaya, Lieutenant Katina and Sportivnaya) of the city of Kaliningrad for their compliance with the requirements for a specially protected natural area of local importance. It is shown that the territory of the indicated forest park zone meets the main criteria for designating a specially protected natural area ...

... localize and neutralize them are proposed. The development of the international situation in the Baltic Sea in the medium term is predicted, and the possible consequences of the military escalation of the alliance in the region for the security of the Kaliningrad Region, a strategically important subject of the Russian Federation, are assessed. Based on the results of this empirical study, it is concluded that NATO member states in the Baltic region have recently changed their approaches to ensuring ...

... growing. Under the influence of geopolitical factors and sanctions, the flows of educational immigration to Russia are transforming and reorienting by country. Central Asian countries, China, and India occupy leading positions. Using the example of the Kaliningrad region, a comparative analysis of the transformation of volumes and directions of international educational migration is conducted, and the reasons for these changes are examined. The region is characterized by the expansion and diversification ...

On February 11, 2024, we lost an outstanding economic geographer, mentor, and leader, a person whose name is synonymous with the establishment of the scientific school of socio-economic geography in the Kaliningrad region, recognized by the entire academic community. A graduate of the Faculty of Geography of Leningrad State University, G. M. Fedorov began his career at Kaliningrad State University in 1972, ultimately dedicating nearly 52 years to the ...

... explored, with an emphasis on Russian regions. A socio-geographical approach is adopted to this end. Spatial features of energy security are identified based on a typology of relevant factors — conceptual objectives and avenues to act on. The case of the Kaliningrad region, an exclave highly dependent on external energy supplies, is examined to provide insight into possible scenarios for ensuring the territory’s energy securi­ty and the conditions for each course of events to unfold. The findings of ...

... socio-cultural communities render re­search endeavours in the fields of social geography and cultural geography invaluable tools in selecting promising areas for regional policies. This study aims to track how the performance of municipal libraries of the Kaliningrad region changed between 2016 and 2022 and analyse the interim results of the Culture flag­ship national project — and effort to aid library modernisation. Albeit often deficient in re­sources, rural libraries serve as local centres for ...

The results of studying the accumulation capabilities of mosses in two peatland ecosystems with different levels of disturbance in the Kaliningrad region—on the Bolshoye bog and the Wittgiren peatland—are presented. The study focused on widely distributed species of mosses: Aulacomnium palustre, Polytrichum strictum, Sphagnum centrale, S. cuspidatum, S. fuscum, S. magellanicum, and ...

For the first time, a find of an incomplete tooth (a fragment of the crown) belonging to a Cretaceous shark of the genus Ptychodus has been discovered in the Kaliningrad Region, with­in boulder-pebble material along the seashore near Zelenogradsk. Previously, the geogra­phically closest remains of Ptychodus were known from Upper Cretaceous reworked deposits in Lithuania. The morphological features of the ...

... between TPSGs and NPOs, the primary distinction lies in their foundational principles: NPOs are formed around a common goal (tasks or problems to be addressed), whereas TPSGs are based on territorial affiliation. Empirical findings indicate that in the Kaliningrad region, a modern wave of TPSG formation began in 2017, with the number of TPSGs increasing from 3 to 56 between 2020 and 2024. At present, there is a high density of TPSGs (number per 10,000 inhabitants) in rural and peripheral municipalities....

... of AI in the hospitality sector, using the hotel services industry as a case study. A generative AI chatbot (ChatGPT 4, YandexGPT 2) was employed to model hotel branding based on a set of predefined parameters, focusing on two historic districts of Kaliningrad. The results indi­cate that the architectural styles and hotel designs generated by AI largely aligned with the intended concepts of the historic sites and could be successfully integrated into the contempo­rary architectural landscape of ...

The article analyzes the social factors that influence the content of tour narratives. Based on interviews with tour guides from Kaliningrad, the study identifies the main social requirements of guiding practice and the corresponding constraints these impose on narration. Among the key social regulators of tour narratives, the article highlights the process of socialization, the ...

... presents an overview of the history of the establishment of higher medical education (from the stage of its planning to the first graduation of physicians) within the framework of a classical university — Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University in the Kaliningrad Region, an exclave territory of the Russian Federation. The retrospective and analysis highlight the relevance and urgency of the problem of physician, nurse, and paramedic shortages in the Kaliningrad Region during the 2000s. The role of ...

... changes caused by the extreme instability of the international situation. Under these new conditions, trust in government authorities serves as a fundamental element for the successful functioning of the state. This article focuses on the youth of the Kaliningrad region. The aim of the study is to identify the socio-economic factors influencing the trust of the region’s youth in government authorities. The results of statistical analysis of empirical data obtained from a mass survey (n=397) demonstrated ...

Based on the analysis of the data from a mass survey of the population of the Kaliningrad region conducted in 2023, a preliminary hypothesis is proposed regarding the specifics of the regional variant of the “pantheon of heroes” — an important structural element of the cultural memory of Kaliningrad residents. Peter the Great ...

... archival materials and employing a microhistorical approach, this article examines postwar party and state policies toward the personal house farming (PHFs) of collective farmers, using the agricultural enterprise Novaya Zhizn in Pravdinsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast as a case study. The aim is to identify the specific features of policy implementation at the level of an individual collective farm and to analyze the attitudes of the collective farmers themselves toward this policy. The article presents ...