Spatial differentiation of rural territories in the Kaliningrad region: implications for socio-economic policies
The article analyses the challenges associated with the development of rural areas in the Kaliningrad region. The author analyses trends in the development of agriculture, population dynamics, and settlement patterns, while also exploring their interconnectedness and external impacts. The research draws upon comparative-geographical, economic-statistical, and cartographic analyses utilizing official statistical ...
The border as a barrier and an incentive for the structural economic transformation of the Kaliningrad exclave
... later. All this reduced the negative balance of trade.
As the nature of neighbourhood with EU countries changed and the borders started to act as barriers, the geographical and commodity structure of international trade altered as well. For example, agricultural produce accounted for 30—45 % of exports in 2014 and as much as 74 % in 2016. Soybean and rapeseed oil comprised about half of agricultural exports; waste oil, wheat, and maslin, another 20 %. The geography of exports was changing as well,...
The legal regulation of agricultural cooperation during the period of the Provisional Government and Soviet Russia
The study examines the transformation of the legal status of agricultural cooperatives in Russia from the period when the Provisional Government came to power to 1929, the period when this type of cooperation was liquidated as a separate entity. The study demonstrates changes in cooperative legislation after the ...
The dynamics of agricultural land use in the North-West of Russia and the Baltic countries
The agricultural land dynamics is one of the central issues of land use in Europe and Russia. Each historical period is characterized by its own model of agricultural land use. The analysis of its dynamics in the North-West of Russia and the Baltic countries ...
The evolution of agricultural nature management models in the Baltic States and the Kaliningrad region in 1890—2016
In each historical period, regional models of agricultural practices are affected by a combination of natural, political, and economic factors. Such models incorporate indicators of changes in the cultivated land area, land structure, and the intensity of agricultural practices. At early stages, ...
Economic development of Russia’s north-western regions and migration to the St. Petersburg agglomeration
... NWFD territories. Before the 2008—2009 crisis, St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region outperformed the other north-western areas. However, the crisis led to a sharp decline in economic growth rates across the federal district, with manufacturing, agriculture, and forestry replacing the service sector as the main drivers. St. Petersburg’s development slowed down, and it became less efficient compared to the Leningrad region and the other five territories, which excelled in manufacturing, agriculture,...
Features of modern accommodation production of agricultural products in the Russian non-black earth region
The macro-region Nonblack Soil Zone plays an important role in the development of the Russian economy, ensuring its food security. With the transition of the country to market relations, the distribution of agricultural production in all its regions has been transformed. These changes for the Nonblack Soil Zone have not been properly studied. This study focuses on the patterns of change in the location of agricultural production in the Nonblack Soil Zone....
The impact of the food embargo on consumer preferences and cross-border practices in the Kaliningrad region
... well as the price policy of sellers on both sides of the border. Cross-border price gradients are important for many market players, as they determine the preferences of residents buying food products, the strategy of foodstuff processors purchasing agricultural raw materials, and the policy of stores and retailers [2], [3].
Russia’s restrictions on the import of agricultural produce and food products from some Western countries introduced in 2014 impacted all food market participants — from ...
Small towns of Latvia: disparities in regional and urban development
... past, which is not touted as a goal for the future.
Until 1991, most towns had thriving local manufacturing enterprises involved in furniture, electronic appliance and garment production, precision engineering, prefabricated building, construction, and agriculture (agricultural processing, biochemical production, agricultural machinery manufacturing). There were also branches of industrial enterprises headquartered in Latvia’s larger towns and cities. Their output did not only meet the demand in the ...
Development and territorial differences of agriculture in the Kaliningrad region
The patterns of development and distribution of production, including agricultural production, common to the country, are also characteristic of the exclave Kaliningrad region. However, spatial isolation from other Russian regions causes, firstly, a greater dependence on external geoeconomic and geopolitical factors and,...
Development factors and regularities of the territorial structure of nature management
The Kaliningrad and Pskov regions serve as good examples for comparison of the main trends and patterns of the territorial agricultural structure as the most dynamic type of nature management. The territorial structure of agriculture in the regions and the factors of its evolution are considered on the example of two historical periods (1975—80 and 2016—17). In the Pskov ...
Pollination as an ecosystem service in agricultural nature management
This article discusses the role of pollination by honeybees as an ecosystem service in the structure of agricultural production. Forest, marsh, and mea-dow communities are considered as basic conditions for pollination in the eco-systems of the Kaliningrad region. A classification of the area for beekeeping is conducted according to the productive capacity ...
The Regional Committee of the CPSU in the system of agricultural authorities in the two post-war decades: The case of the Kaliningrad region
The paper analyzes the role of the CPSU’s Kaliningrad Regional Committee in agricultural management in the Kaliningrad region in 1946—1965. The author estimates the performance of the Regional Committee in distributing powers between regional administrative structures, coordinating actions with Union authorities, and exercising ...
Structure of Production and Management of Agricul¬tural and Industrial Sector of Kaliningrad Region in Historical Evolution (1945-1993)
The article is dedicated to the structural change in the management of the agricultural and industrial sector in the Kaliningrad region that took place in the Soviet times under the influence of both technical innovations and the change in the policy line.
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Гальцова С.
П.
Основные этапы развития ...
Development of Information Support to Agricultural Producers in the Kaliningrad Region
This article presents the results of analysis of information needs and information infrastructure of the Kaliningrad region’s agricultural sector and offers a concept of information support to the regional agricultural producers on the Internet.
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Целевая
программа ведомства «Создание Единой системы информационного ...
Measuring social well-being in the rural areas of the Kaliningrad region
... Rural districts were identified in the Kaliningrad region on the basis of the following criteria: the share of population residing in the rural areas (threshold value of 50 %); the share of non-residential areas (threshold value of 75 %), the share of agricultural lands (threshold value of 50 %). Further analysis was based on the indices of geodemographic situation, investment potential, and production development. Rural municipalities were ranked according to these indices. The study showed that the ...
On the possibility to adopt the historical practice of applying technologies for land fertility increase in Eastern Prussia at agricultural enterprises of the Kaliningrad region
... considers the features of East Prussian land use system, whose crucial component was technologies for land fertility increase. A special package of measures in the framework of melioration and irrigation activities accounted for the high productivity of agriculture in this territory despite the fact that the local climate conditions can hardly be called perfect according to the well-known principles of agricultural science. The authors offer an overview of scientific approaches to the reconstruction ...
The modern economy of Russia’s Baltic regions in the municipal context
... systems of the two regions and the geodemographic characteristics of their municipalities [7], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20]. With the heightened state interest in ensuring food security, there are relatively detailed statistics available for the agriculture sector. This is the only segment of the municipal economy for which Rosstat publishes data for all enterprises, not just the large and medium ones. These statistics encompass production indices and non-monetary indicators such as acreage, ...
The economy of Russian Baltic regions: development level and dynamics, structure and international trade partners
... Gross regional product at base prices (OKVED 2), 2022, EMISS, URL:
https://fedstat.ru/indicator/59448
(accessed 11.06.2022).
Types of businesses, as divided into production, market and non-market services
Code
Type of business
Production of goods
А
Agriculture, forestry, hunting, fishing and fish farming
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Mineral extraction
C
Manufacturing
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Electricity, gas and steam supply; air conditioning
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Water supply, wastewater disposal, waste management, pollution abatement
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Construction
Production of ...
Rural areas of russia’s north-west borderland: problems and development paths
... initiatives supported by the authorities, extensive use of innovations, the Internet, and scientific knowledge. The study takes into account and assesses the heterogeneity of rural areas by producing a typology of districts built on the structure of agricultural production, using the Hall-Tideman index. The study used several indicators to identify the role and place of border districts in their respective regions. Three types of districts were distinguished according to the structure of agricultural ...
The German agricultural discourse in the 17th century (based on the treatise «Stratagema oeconomicum oder Akkerstudent» by Salomon Gubert
This article explores peculiarities of the formation of the German agricultural discourse as a special type of scientific discourse of the seventeenth century. The author performs a discursive and cognitive analyses of the treatise «Stratagema oeconomicum oder Akkerstudent» written by the German pastor Salomon Gubert ...
The modelling of consumer demand for food in the Kaliningrad region
This article presents an approach to developing a comprehensive model of demand for agricultural produce in the Kaliningrad region within the re-search problem of ensuring regional food security. The comprehensive model includes the regulatory and statistical patterns of consumption and a model of demand for resources among agricultural ...
Agricultural effectiveness of the villages of the Novgorod and Pskov Provinces belonging to the tsar's family in the first half of the 19th century
On the basis of archive sources, this article analyses the development of agriculture by peasants belonging to the tsar’s family in the Novgorod and Pskov provinces. The article offers author's methodology of numerical data processing for an accurate assessment of agricultural effectiveness.
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Ковальченко ...
Innovative factors and conditions of sustainable development of rural territories
... potential, diversification of production through support for non-agricultural activities and employment, application of innovations and efficient technologies, and manufacturing of environmentally friendly products. The analysis of the development of agricultural and innovations in the Baltic Sea regions serves as a basis for identifying the factors and conditions of supporting innovative entrepreneurship. Of special importance are the research, technological, and innovative potential of the territory,...
Rural areas of Eastern Germany: modern challenges
After the German reunification the agricultural development of eastern territories seemed to have picked up its pace. Yet the main problems those territories are facing today hatched already in the mid-1990s. In our study we address the problems and challenges that hinder sustainable development ...
Population change and the settlement system transformation in Poland, as revealed by the 2021 census
... increased the general level of the country’s urbanization. Peasants, the majority of the migrants, had to adjust to city life” [9, p. 85]. The path for the rehabilitation of rural areas in the north and west of present-day Poland was creating large agricultural enterprises on vast tracts of land [10] mainly relying on urban settlements abandoned by Germans. Those who have worked and continue to work in these enterprises have been and remain agricultural workers rather than peasants dominating eastern ...
Inter-regional disparities in agriculture and rural population change in Russia
The article presents data reflecting the territorial peculiarities of rural population dynamics and shows their dependence on external factors (primarily, the development of agriculture). The database includes 14 indicators of the regional spatial differentiation of rural population development in Russia between 2010 —2020. A typology of regions based on eight economic and ecological parameters is provided. The dataset ...
On strengthening the territorial differentiation of the rural population and the agrarian sector of the economy in the Russian Federation
... strategies of the regional socio-economic development. Having studied the statistical data published by Rosstat, the article analyzes the territorial features of rural settlement and its changes in relation to the level, structure and dynamics of agricultural production in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Given their essential ekistic and economic characteristics, the author made a typological grouping of regions, which is intended for practical use in the regional policy ...
Clusters in the system of economic and innovation development of agriculture in the Rostov Region and the Krasnodar Region
... development for the agro-industrial complex (including the "completion" of basic spheres in the agro-industrial complex and the actual cluster development formats). Today the innovative vectors of the complex development often lay along the large agricultural holdings, which also act as customers of R&D in the industry. The lack (despite the presence of formal strategies for regional and cluster development) of consensus on interaction in the industry and its development strategy was revealed....
The development of dairy farming: forecasts and trends
During the period of implementation of the policy of import substitution in Russia, the level of production of basic agricultural products is gradually approaching the rational rate of their consumption. The biggest gap in providing the population with basic food remains in the production of milk. Only 71.0 % of the recommended norm of dairy produce is consumed. At ...
First results of the import substitution policy in the Kaliningrad region
The aim of this research work is to analyze the results of the import substitution policy of an exclave territory. The objectives of this research include the analysis of the development of agriculture in the exclave region, the evaluation of the food security level, the assessment of import substitution and its influence on the development of agriculture. The subject of this study is the policy of import substitution of the Kaliningrad ...
Modeling Value Chains in Kaliningrad Agriculture
The article describes an approach to modeling and monitoring of the value added in the agricultural sector of the Kaliningrad region in the situration of the need to improve food security and increase internal agricultural output. The results of the first phase of the simulation based on the example of crop production chains of added value ...
Modern landscapes of the Kaliningrad region as a reflection of land us
This article examines the current areal territorial habitats and their de-pendence on the land use system. The author presents cases of transformations and restoration successions of agricultural and forestry landscapes. The mosaic nature of the current genetically determined landscape structure of the Kaliningrad region is explained by a large number of areas at different stages of transformation
1. Базы данных муниципальных ...
Trends in agrarian land use and the nutrient balance values ensuring an increase in land fertility
This article analyses major trends in agricultural land use in the Kaliningrad region (the proportions of fallow land, tilled crops, grassland). The author suggests a methodology for calculating soil nutrient balance tested on a farm.
1. Вовлечение в сельскохозяйственное ...
Military sovkhozes of the Red Army in former East Prussia in 1945—1946
This paper focuses on the ensuring of food supply for the military personnel of the Red Army and the German population in the first post-war years. Emphasis is placed on the development of new agricultural structures - subsidiary farms, enterprises, and, later, military sovkhozes, which created the basis for the agricultural industry after the Soviet population of the Kaliningrad region.
1. Гордеев И. А. Военные совхозы ...
Methodological approaches to scientific maintenance of branch: regional aspect
The authors consider peculiarities and methodological approaches to scientific maintenance of a branch taking as an example the agriculture of the Kaliningrad region being the exclave region of Russia.
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Бильчак В.
С., Дупленко Н.
Г.
Предпринимательство региона / под ред. В.
С. Бильчака. Калининград,...
Changes in the cultural landscape of the Kaliningrad region’s periphery in the 19th/20th centuries
This article considers the development of cultural landscapes on the agricultural periphery of the Kaliningrad region. These territories are analysed in view of historical, geographical, social, economic, and political factors. Owing to its history, the Kaliningrad region boasts a unique combination of cultural landscape ...
Social and Economic Space Compression in Border Areas: the Case of the Northwestern Federal District
... spatial differentiation of regional socioeconomic charac-teristics in the Northwestern Federal District. The study focuses on border areas, where the following key manifestations of compression have been identified: trans-port connectivity, level of agriculture development, and depopulation. All these indicators of space compression process are studied at the municipal level. The authors identify the key features of socioeconomic space compression for the border areas of the Russian Northwest.
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The historical aspects and current issues of the development of Russian-Lithuanian economic relations
... post-war restoration of national economy and acute deficit of material and human resources, the Soviet leadership managed not only to reform and develop a socialistic economy in Lithuania but also to turn it into an industrial republic with developed agriculture and modern manufacturing facilities, whose major industries manufactured products used in nuclear and space technologies, aviation and navigation. The research shows that the post-Soviet period led to a dramatic change in Russian-Lithuanian ...
Innovation centres as growth points for smaller towns and rural areas
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5. Oficial'nyj portal Pravitel'stva Kaliningradskoj oblasti [The Official Site of the Government of the Kaliningrad region], available at: http://gov39.ru/novosti-2/zakon-o-promyshlennoj-politike-rasshiryaet-obyazannosti-i-uvelichivaet-zonu-otvetstvennosti-regionalnoj-vlasti-2528972311/ ...
The characteristics of the biogenic element of the runoff fr om the drainage areas of the Gulf of Finland basin experiencing a lim ited anthropogenic impact
... Gulf of Finland basin where the monitoring of the streamflow chemical composition was performed. The authors consider the dynamics of biogenic element content in the streamflow, the relation of the drainage areas to certain landscapes, the share of agricultural lands and tillage in the drainage areas, the forest-land percentage, a rural population density, and the forest age and type.
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A new role of cooperation under economic sanctions as seen by residents of the Kaliningrad region
... are mentioned by 71.5 % of residents in the Kaliningrad region (the combined total of ‘strongly agree’ and ‘somewhat agree’ responses). The areas prioritised for cooperative development in the region include food production and sales (77.3 %), agriculture (72.3 %), domestic services and repairs (70.1 %), and culture and tourism (68.4 %).
Discussion
Approximately half of the respondents from Kaliningrad hold a positive view towards cooperation. Amidst the current geopolitical and economic crises,...
Sanctions risks and regional development: Russian case
... in January — September 2023 (hereinafter referred to as the output index (Table 2). The latter indicator can serve to indirectly assess the dynamics of the regional economy, since it is calculated based on data on changes in the physical volume of agricultural, industrial production, construction, trade turnover, transportation, and storage.<12> The indicator is used for operational assessment since the calculation of the gross regional product in Russian statistics is carried out and published ...
Study of the physical and geographical conditions of the territory of the Kemerovo region — Kuzbass for the purpose of reclamation works
... (brown soils and sub-brown soils, podzolic soils, gray forest soils). It has been established that based on the physico-geographical conditions in the territory of the Kemerovo Region — Kuzbass, it is advisable to carry out forestry, sanitary-hygienic, agricultural, recreational, and water management reclamation.
Burova N.V., Prosekov A.Yu.
recultivation, geological structure, geomorphological structure, climatic features, soil cover, vegetation
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Development of network business structures in the spatially distributed cluster St. Petersburg-Leningrad region-Kaliningrad region as a tool of interregional interaction
..., own stores, or dealer centers. Excluding federal-level organizations, this number is five. The financial services sector turned out to be the most represented, while the least represented were the IT industry, pharmaceuticals, food industry, and agriculture. All of this is happening against the backdrop of the expansion of the presence of Saint Petersburg businesses in the regions of the Russian Federation beyond the Northwestern Federal District.
Gres R.A.
interregional interaction,...
Knowledge and innovation dynamics of the Northwest Russia under geopolitical changes
... Petersburg. In the Leningrad region, the fields of knowledge of the publications are less varied compared to St. Petersburg.
The second group of regions show a steady range of publications by fields of knowledge. Earth and planetary, environmental, agricultural and biological sciences have a significant role in their structure (in addition to the Russian top-five fields of knowledge).
In the third group, papers on social sciences and humanities have a significant weight in the structure of the publications,...
The adaptation of Russian regions’ economies to the rupture of relations with Europe: the case of Baltic Sea ports
... a declared transshipment capacity of 10 million tons per year.<21> Since the majority of Russian export grain goes to the countries of the Middle East and Africa, European sanctions are generally unable to cause significant harm to the Russian agricultural and transport sector which supply it.
Besides, there has been a significant increase in cabotage transportation in the direction of the Kaliningrad region. Cabotage transportation of containers between Russian regions in the Baltic increased ...
The end of the collective farm (the case of the collective farm “Novaya Znizn”, Pravdinsky district, Kaliningrad region)
... farm members on the processes occurring in the country in the late 1980s to early 1990s. The analysis presents the main challenges faced by the farm during the period of Perestroika. Despite numerous transformations initiated by M. S. Gorbachev in the agricultural sector, they did not lead to the expected qualitative changes. Phenomena such as rising prices and shortages of goods caused disillusionment with the ideas of Perestroika. The author examines the process of reorganizing the collective farm ...
Artificial Intelligence: a catalyst for entrepreneurship education in the Baltics
... and countries in the world are competing for leadership in AI. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, said in 2016: “In the next 10 years, we will shift to a world that is AI-first.” For example, across all US sectors for which data is available (excluding agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting), AI-related job postings increased on average from 1.7 % in 2021 to 1.9 % in 2022. Employers in the United States are increasingly looking for university graduates with AI-related skills.
There are numerous ...
Reputation and status in Denmark’s strategic culture
... to contribute to operations led by larger allies.<25>
When elaborating on the role of the US in global climate policy, Denmark’s strategy for 2022 mentions cooperation with several American states on eco-friendly water supply technologies and agriculture, stressing collaborations with northeastern states in the field of wind energy. The strategy underscores Denmark’s extensive export opportunities in the US market and the need to take an active part in the green transition in the US, which ...