The Amber Industry: Development Сhallenges and Combating Amber Trafficking in the Baltic Region
This article considers the current state and prospective development of the amber industry in the Baltic Sea region. The authors identify the main obstacles to the industry’s development in Russia — poor pricing mechanisms for raw amber, an imbalance between supply and demand, a slow pace of technological modernisation, and ...
An economic analysis of the structure of amber processing industry
This paper focuses on the problems of improving the structure of amber processing industry and analyzes the amber industry by segments. The author introduces the notion of level of value added per employee and the level of value added through processing regional natural resources and considers the possibility of recovering ...
Amber as an economic and cultural phenomenon in the history of the Aesti and Prussians
This article emphasises that, in the history of the early Balts (the Aesti and Prussians), amber was a principal means of trade that was exchanged for necessary goods from Europe. In these conditions, amber played a dual role: on the one hand, it stimulated trade connections between the Balts and other peoples, on the other hand, it decelerated ...
Paleofauna of Dominican amber: the current state of research and comparative analysis
Recently published papers and our own research results have enabled the authors to generalize the data on the paleofauna of Dominican amber, the largest deposit of the Miocene age fossil organisms. The research tasks included geographic and stratigraphic examinations, the study of research history and an attempt of synchronization of paleofans with other Lagerstättes. The authors ...
Priorities for the development of manufacturing industries in the Kaliningrad region
... Kaliningrad region since the early 1990s
The region’s manufacturing facilities came to a near standstill in the 1990s, prompting the search for specialisations the region could embrace in the changed environment. Not only was the idea of creating an amber processing cluster widely discussed in Kaliningrad but also a correspondent goal appeared in the national programme for industrial and business development in the region.
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A range of studies provided a rationale for cooperation in the Baltic area,...
The economy of Russian Baltic regions: development level and dynamics, structure and international trade partners
... except oil, are produced, for the most part, in the respective region.
The Kaliningrad region is an exporter of agricultural products (soya and rapeseed oil and meal are exported into all the countries of the macro-region except Estonia; wheat, raw amber, mineral products and ferrous metals, to Lithuania; mink skins, to Poland).
St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region export oil and petroleum products to all the states of the macro-region. Some of the countries purchase engineering products, ferrous ...
Update of age data of the palvesk formation ("green wall") of Sambian peninsula (the Kaliningrad region)
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The modern economy of Russia’s Baltic regions in the municipal context
... share of agriculture, exceeding 75 % in 2020—2021. Additionally, in certain years, the Nesterov, Polessk, Pravdinsk, and Slavsk MDs reported figures of over 50 %. Mining has a significant role in the revenue structure only in the Yantarny UD, where amber is mined. Manufacturing industries occupy the largest share (more than two-thirds of revenue) in the Bagrationovsk MD and the Sovetsk UD, the smallest in the Yantarny (about 2 % in the last three years), slightly higher in the Krasnoznamensk and ...
Three Russian Baltic regions in the context of confrontation between Russia and the West
... two regions, contributing to the establishment of territorially distributed sectoral and cross-sectoral clusters. There are promising opportunities for creating clusters in shipbuilding, automotive manufacturing, the jewellery industry (particularly, amber), as well as in fishing, agro-industry, tourism, health, and scientific-educational complexes. The ultimate goal is to seamlessly integrate the region into a unified territorial socio-economic system with the other two Baltic regions of Russia. ...
Glaciodislocations in the quaternary deposits of the Kaliningrad region
... and a half and characterized by a variety of forms, they have not yet been practically studied, and there is very little knowledge of their formation mechanisms. Meanwhile, some of the dislocations, such as the glacial blocks, may be of interest as amber deposits. The aim of the work is to characterize and systematize the unique glaciotectonic formations observed in the surface, mainly Quaternary, sediments of the Kaliningrad Peninsula. Based on the classification proposed by E. A. Levkov (1980),...
Battlefield memories of the youth in Yu. N. Ivanov’s oeuvre: The novel In a besieged ci
... but also rewrite the past and change it to fit his concept of it.
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Minimising Investment Risks Through Optimising Public-Private Partnership: The Case of the Kaliningrad Region
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Russia’s Coastal Zone as a Social and Geographic Phenomenon: Conceptualisation and Delimitation
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Improving Human Resource Training Policy for the Balanced Economic and Demographic Development of the Kaliningrad Region
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Chapters of the institutional economic history of Königsberg/Kaliningrad
... dedicated to a certain period of the 'popular' socioeconomic history (with a particular focus on the institutional development problems) of the former East Prussia from Antiquity to present days. The authors tackle the issues of the economic history of amber, the role of the Hansa League in the development of medieval trade, the QWERTY-effects in the rail gauge standards, and the peculiarities of the development of the Kaliningrad region in the post-Soviet period
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