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• Border functions as a factor of development of border regions and the formation of cross-border regions

  ... existence of an independent branch of science on borders, "limology" (Latin: limes — Border). For the geographical sciences border is also a traditional subject of study, where the interest focuses on its impact on the geographical objects (border regions) and the functions possessed by the border rather than the border itself. The article presents the analysis of existing scientific approaches to determining border functions. It also proposes the author's own typology of the border regions, based ...

• Russia’s North-West Borders: Tourism Resource Potential

  Being an area of development of Russia’s northwest border regions, tourism requires the extending of border regions’ appeal. A unique resource of the northwestern border regions are the current and historical state borders and border facilities. Successful international experience of creating and developing ...

• Local border traffic as an efficient tool for developing cross-border cooperation

  ... Relations of the Russian Federation], 2001, Moscow, 352 p. 19. Morachevskaya, K. A. 2013, Prigranichnost' i periferijnost' kak faktory razvitija prigranichnyh s Belorussiej regionov Rossii [Cross-border and peripheral factors as the development of border regions of Russia and Belarus], PhD Thes., Moscow. 20. Nikolaj Cukanov: Mestnoe prigranichnoe peredvizhenie — uspeshnyj jeksperiment, kotoryj nuzhno razvivat' [Nikolai Tsukanov: Local border traffic — a successful experiment that needs to be developed],...

• Tourism in Border Regions: Theoretical Aspects of a Geographical Study

  This article considers theoretical aspects of tourism studies and development in border regions. The work aims to identify key areas of geographical studies into tourism in border regions. Its research significance lies in a review of Russian and international literature on border territory and the role of tourism in socioeconomic development....

• The changing role of border regions in the regional policies of the EU and Russia

  This article analyses how the role of border regions has changed in the regional policies of Russia and European countries since the early 1990s. The study aims to estimate the efficiency of Russia’s regional policy with regard to border regions (its completeness, a focus on actual problems, etc....

• Russia-European Union and Russian-Chinese borderlands: economic and demographic dimension

  In the modern world, the intensity of inter-civilizational, intercultural and interstate interaction is increasing. Border regions, territories where this interaction involves direct contact, are of great importance in this process. This has given rise to a new area of research — border region studies. The Russian Federation has the longest state border, the largest number ...

• Population Change in the Neighbouring Regions of Russia and the European Union States

  ... favourable demographic situation, which, however, differs from place to place. To attain the aims of the study, I analyse official data from Russian and EU statistical offices and map the results obtained. I identify significant differences between border regions and cities. The most adverse demographic situation is observed in the borderlands of the Baltics, a slightly better one in Poland and Finland. As to Russia’s border regions, a population increase is characteristic of Saint Petersburg and the ...

• Spatio-temporal patterns of knowledge transfer in the borderland

  ... study consists of using information from the Scopus abstract and citation database to assess the intensity of research cooperation. The findings suggest that the degree of involvement in transboundary research cooperation varies widely across Russia’s border regions. Mikhaylov, А. S., Wendt, J. A., Peker, I. Yu., Mikhaylova, А. А. knowledge geography, border region, borderland, knowledge transfer, cross-border cooperation, Baltic region 132-155 10.5922/2079-8555-2020-1-8

• Cross-border Tourism in the Russian Northwest: General Trends and Features of Development

  As a result of the socioeconomic transformations in the Russian Federation, the openness of border regions under the influence of integration process taking place in the world community facilitates tourist mobility between neighbouring countries. The author describes an approach that considers the border regions of Northwest Russia as attractive destinations ...

• On the establishment of state borders and delimitation of marine areas of the Russian Federation in the Kaliningrad region zone

  This article considered the stage and features of formation of the state border with Poland and Lithuania, as well as the delimitation of the Russian marine area in the Kaliningrad region zone. The Polish border was established by the Soviet-Polish border agreement of 1945. It was of astronomical nature and did not take into account the earlier administrative and economic structure of East Prussia. Since 1993, representatives of the Kaliningrad region ...

• Local border traffic and the development of retail trade in the Kaliningrad region and Polish borderlands

  ... geopolitical situation and adjustment of the currency exchange rates at the end of 2014. Based on statistics and analytical data, the authors arrive at the conclusion that the positive effect of LBT outdoes its negative impact on various sectors of the border regions’ economies, including retail trade. 1. Anisevich, R., Palmovsky, T., Dragileva, I. I.. 2013 , Vlijanie mestnogo prigranichnogo peredvizhenija na razvitie transgranichnogo turizma mezhdu Respublikoj Pol'sha i Kaliningradskoj oblast'ju Rossijskoj ...

• Local Border Traffic as a Form of Visa Liberalisation and Territorial Development

  ... Russian Federation, available at: http://www.mid.ru/Brp_4.nsf/arh/D2FDBE95F19D148EC325717D002FFDCC (accessed 29.08.2014). 16. Moskva i Varshava prizvali ES otkryt' granicy s Kaliningradskoj oblast'ju [Moscow and Warsaw called on the EU to open the border with the Kaliningrad region], 2010, Deutsche Welle, available at: http://rus. delfi. ee/daily/abroad/moskva-ivarshava-prizvali-es-otkryt-granicy-s-kaliningradskoj-oblastyu.d?id=30297729 (accessed 29.08.2014). 17. Pol'sha vystupaet za vizovye l'goty zhiteljam Kaliningradskoj ...

• The intensity of population movements through the Russian- Polish border after the suspension of the local border traffic mechanism: 2016 outcomes

  ... article provides the analysis of the mutual intensity of the Russian-Polish border crossing in the period from 2002 to 2016. The author analyzes the contribution made by the cross-border movement mechanism to the development of relations between the border regions of the neighboring countries. The article concludes that in spite of shortcomings and negative effects for both countries, the mechanism of the mechanism of local border traffic in 2015, launched in 2012, became an important development tool for ...

• Competitiveness of the Economies of Border Regions

  The article is dedicated to the problem of competitiveness of border regions as subjects of the Russian Federation having specific characteristics. The authors focus on the stages, during which border regions build their competitiveness, as well as analyse certain indices characterizing it. They examine the role of these ...

• Evaluating and Measuring the Security of Russia’s Border Regions: Theory and Practice

  ... economic security of Russia’s regions has been the focus of numerous studies. Significant contributions have been made to relevant methodological approaches and measurement tools. However, economic security has been little studied in the context of border regions. In this article, we address the methodological problems of employing existing methods and models for measuring the economic security of border regions. We pay special attention to the development of an evaluation algorithm incorporating the border ...

• The Role of Tourism in the Development of Russia’s Northwestern Border Regions

  This article examines the development of tourism and recreation in the border regions of Russia’s North-West as a new promising area of regional growth. The unique natural, historical, and cultural resources, nature, and a favourable economic and geographical position are basic prerequisites for the development of tourism in ...

• Comparative analysis of students’ collective consciousness in the Russia-EU and Russia-China border regions: mathematical modelling

  ... are regional differences in collective consciousness, which are manifested most prominently in the comparison of eastern and western regions. The growing intensity of interaction between Europe and Asia makes the comparison of the western and eastern border regions of Russia particularly important from the geopolitical point of view. The authors employ the principles of an emerging scientific direction, border regional studies, for a comparative analysis of the collective consciousness of students from two ...

• Tourism development in border areas: a benefit or a burden? The case of Karelia

  Border regions are expected to benefit from their position when it comes to tourism de­velopment. In this article, I propose a new approach to interpreting the connection between an area’s proximity to the national border and the development of tourism at ...

• Borders and Identity in Theory and Practice of the Eastern Baltic Region

  ... consequences of the conflict between the existing models of ethnopolitical identification in the border areas of the Eastern Baltic region. The main result of the study is that it has proved the existence of a special type of identity characteristic of border regions of the Baltic countries. In the context of this identity, the classic postmodernist dilemma of “us and them” is insufficient for a proper scientific analysis, and even more so for a political forecast. The formation of a special “double” ...

• Western border regions of Russia: delimitation, structure, typology

  This article is devoted to the western border regions of Russia, which play an important role in terms of history, geopolitics, geoeconomy, culture, and mind­set. Relying on the interpretations of ‘border’, ‘frontier’, and ‘border­lands’, which are traditional for Russian limnology,...

• Polish-Russian Small Border Traffic in the Context of Russia-EU Relations

  ... important issues in Russia-EU relations. The analysis shows that the signing of the Polish-Russian agreement on small border traffic should be viewed as a success. Based on the agreement, the inhabitants of borderlands in Poland and Russia (the Kaliningrad region) can cross the border without obtaining an entry visa. For the inhabitants of the borderlands, the agreement brings a range of significant advantages relating to the intensification of social, cultural, touristic, and economic contacts. It is worth noting that the agreement ...

• The Youth in Kaliningrad, Gdansk and Klaipeda: Geopolitical Vision of the World, Identity and Images of the Other

  ... complicated by the uncertainty of the EU-Russia relations. Young residents of Gdansk and Klaipeda reproduce dated stereotypes, and their interest in the Kaliningrad region is limited. However, as the experience of the other countries suggests, local border traffic between the Kaliningrad region and the neighbouring Polish voivodeships can contribute to the improvement of mutual images. Long-lasting eforts to diversify cooperation and promote a positive image of Kaliningrad in the neighbouring Polish regions can prove worthwhile. Apart ...

• Twin cities: a new form of cross-border cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region?

  ... (accessed 19 July 2011). 25. Zalamans, D. 2001, Transboundary regionalization — the case of Haparanda and Tornio. In: Bucken-Knapp, G., Schack, M. (eds.). Borders matter: transboundary regions in contemporary Europe, Copenhagen, Danish Institute of Border Region Studies, p. 59—72. Anishenko Anatoly, Sergunin Alexander twin cities, cross-border cooperation, the Baltic region 19-27 10.5922/2079-8555-2012-1-3

• Economic security of a border region: quantitative and qualitative measurements (the case of the Rostov region)

  The article evaluates the economic security of the Rostov region, a west­ern border region of Russia under the conditions of geoeconomic turbulence. Using complementary methods of the economic-statistical analysis of dynamic series and expert interviewing, the author describes multidimensional intra-regional processes triggered by external ...

• Problems and Prospects of Cross-Border Cooperation in Tourism between Russia and Europe

  ... and Division Polish and Ukrainian Cities, Focus on Geography, V. 56, no. 3. 2. Grama, V. 2011, Cooperation at the EU External Borders. Case of Ramania, Romanian Review on Political Geography. V. 13, no. 2, p. 256—263. 3. Kovacs, A. 2011, On Borders, Border Regions and Cross-border Retail-Trading, Scientific Papers of the University of Pardubice, Series D, Faculty of Economics & Administration. 4. Gal, Z. 2009, Danube Region- Past, Present and Future Prospect of Transnational Cooperation as a Playground ...

• Some features of external migration processes in the coastal regions of the Western borderlands of Russia

  ... Soviet Republics in 1992—2013 // MJSS. 2015. Vol. 6, № 6 S7. P. 181—189. 8. Rogers A., Castro L. Model migration schedules // Research report RR-81-30, IIASA. Laxenburg, 1981. Lialina A. V. external migration, Western borderlands, coastal regions, border re­gions, migration effectiveness, age-specific migration pattern 57-74

• Cross-border cooperation in tourism between the Warmian-Masurian voivodeship and the Kaliningrad region

  ... the regions, as well as to outline the barriers to their cooperation. The results of the survey presented in the article indicate that the current activities aimed at the development of cross-border cooperation between the Kaliningrad region and the border regions of Poland are not sufficient. On the basis of the survey the authors identify the major barriers to cross-border cooperation as seen by the regions’ residents and authorities. The removal of these barriers can form the basis for developmental ...

• Geographical structure and dynamics of foreign trade relations of the Republic of Crimea with the border countries and economic security issues

  The status of the Republic of Crimea as a new border region of Russia prioritizes the study of the region's foreign economic relations. The article fo­cuses on general and particular foreign trade indicators of the Republic of Crimea while ensuring economic security of the region. The author analyzes the ...

• Current and Prospective Transport Connections between Poland’s Border Voivodeships and Russia’s Kaliningrad Region

  ... to support interregional cross-border cooperation. Moreover, transport is a traditional area of cooperation between neighbouring regions. In this study, we analyse the features and configuration of today’s transport links between Russian and Polish border regions and examine a range of transport projects aimed at a more diversified and intensive cooperation. We believe that priority should be given to the projects that are beneficial to all the parties. As of the beginning of 2018, Russian-Polish cross-border ...

• Economic security of the Russian-Ukrainian border regions of the Russian Federation in modern conditions

  The article is devoted to the urgent problem of economic security of the Russian border regions, directly adjacent to Ukraine: Kursk, Belgorod, Voro­nezh, Rostov and Krasnodar regions. The study is going to assess the level of economic security in these regions, as well as its dynamics after 2014, taking into account cyclical features and ...

• Project approach in transboundary tourism-and-recreation region building: the case of Karelia

  ... the Russian-Finnish border, Balt. Reg., vol. 12, no. 2, p. 140-152. doi: 10.5922/2079-8555-2020-2-9. 6. Manakov, A. G., Golomidova, E. S., Ivanov, I. A.2019, Assessment of the size of the tourist flow within the cross-border tourist and recreational regions in the north-western border of Russia, Izvestiya Russkogo geograficheskogo obshchestva [Bulletin of the Russian Geographical Society], no. 5 (151), p. 18—31 (in Russ.). 7. Derendyaeva, T. M., Mukhina, G. A. 2015, Problems of bilateral tourism development and cross-border ...

• The influence of the border position of the Pskov region on the socio-cultural values of the population

  This article presents the results of a sociological research on national and supranational (civilizational) identity of the Pskov region population conducted in 1999—2010. The Pskov region is the only European region of Russia that shares borders with three states, two of which are members of the EU. The author defines the areas of the neighbouring countries' sociocultural influence on the lives of the border territory population. The article also describes the existing stereotypes about ...

• Cross-border Specialization of Interregional Interaction: Applying New Assessment Methods

  Cross-border cooperation as a type of interregional interaction is becoming a significant factor in the development of border regions. It can be viewed as a result of intensification of cross-border contacts and greater economic openness of cross-border regions. Thus, the roots of current development are quite easy to pinpoint. However, assessment of the impact of cross-border ...

• Cross-Border Tourist Routes: The Potential of Russia’s North- West

  Developing cross-border tourist routes is an effective way of developing cooperation between border regions of Russia and the neighbouring countries. The author presents an approach that interprets cross-border tourist routes as an instrument for the conservation, reproduction, and promotion of natural, cultural, and historical potential and as a means ...

• The foreign policy of Poland and the Kaliningrad region in 1989—2012

  ... Chełminiak, M., Kotowicz, W. Modzelewski, W. T. 2006, The Polish — Russian Cross-Border Cooperation. Institutional Conditions and Perspectives of Regional Development. In: Palmowski, T., Matviyishyn, Y. (ed.), Problems of Regional Development in Border Regions of Ukraine and Poland, Lviv, pp. 226—245. 3. Kaczmarski, M., Smolar, E. 2007, The European Union and Russia 2004—2007, CSM Policy Paper, September, 2007, p. 20. 4. Kotowicz, W., 2012, Życie polityczne Obwodu Kaliningradzkiego Federacji ...

• Border Position as a Factor of Strategic and Territorial Planning in Russian Regions in the Baltic

  In the conditions of globalization, Russian border regions can form transborder regions through cooperation with the neighbouring territories of other states. The optimisation of spatial organisation of economy, social sphere, and nature management using the tools of spatial planning is fully justified ...

• Geopolitical turbulence and its economic and geographical projections: the case of Russia’s western border regions

  ... society and its structures. The author reveals the most relevant aspects of the territorial restructuring of the Russian economy, which is being influenced by recent geopolitical changes. The author assesses the economic resistance of Russia’s western border regions to geopolitical turbulence. Special attention is paid to the typology of border regions, which is built taking into account the impact of geopolitical turbulence and compensatory measures of state support on regional socio-economic systems. The ...

• Development of cross-border tourist and recreational regions on the Karelian section of the Russian-Finnish border

  ... the degree of intensity of cross-border tourism exchange between the neighbouring administrative units of the two countries. The article also examines other tendencies indicative of the formation and development of cross-border tourism and recreation regions along the Russian-Finnish border. The authors identified three cross-border tourism and recreation regions of different development levels: South Karelia, Middle Karelia and North Karelia. South Karelia is a mesoregion with the average annual tourist exchange of about 100 thousand ...

• Geodemography of the Saint Petersburg Suburbs

  ... the territory’s historical development. The formation of the settlement system of the Saint Petersburg suburbs started with the foundation of the city, and continues to this day. Today, their spatial structure is shaped by the current administrative border between Saint Petersburg and the Leningrad region — a product of the territory’s development in the Soviet period of Russia’s history. The lengthy process of border formation has given it a peculiar character. The most vibrant and attractive areas of the suburbs are located at a distance ...

• The Baltic Finnish Peoples Divided by State and Administrative Borders: Territorial Development of the Karelians, Vepsians, and Setos

  ... investigate the impact of changes in state and administrative borders on the territorial and demographic development of small ethnic groups. The article analyses the case of three Baltic Finnish peoples living in the Russian North-West and divided by borders of different levels: Karelians (Finland, the Republic of Karelia, and the Leningrad and Tver regions), Vepsians (the Republic of Karelia and the Leningrad and Vologda regions), and Setos (Estonia and the Pskov region). The analysis is based on the cartographic and statistical demographic data, as well as the results of a complex expedition made ...

• Geography of inbound tourism and transboundary tourism-and-recreation region-building in Sweden

  ... national tourism geography from the perspective of the theory of transboundary tourism-and-recreation region building. Interregional differences in the structure of incoming tourist flows help identify the country’s cross-border tourism-and-recreation regions and delineate their borders. This research employs statistical and cartographic methods. The incoming tourist flow to Sweden grew steadily until 2020. However, the Covid-19 crisis has led to a drastic reduction in the number of incoming tourists. Based on the 2019 statistics,...

• The history of the integration between Russia’s Kaliningrad region and Poland’s northeastern voivodeships: A programme approach

  ... procesie integracji europejskiej. In: Woźniak, M. G. (ed.) Spójność ekonomiczna a modernizacja regionów transgranicznych, p. 95—105. 32. Kretinin, G. V., Mironyuk, D. A., Tarasov, I. N., Kuznetsova, T. Y. 2016, Dialogue of the borderland: from Euro Regions to Local Border Traffic. Political and geographical aspects, International Journal of Environmental & Science Education, Vol. 11, no. 17, p. 10485—10492. 33. Lepik, K.-L. 2009, Euroregions as mechanisms for strengthening crossborder cooperation in the Baltic ...

• The Kaliningrad Region as a coastal border region of Russia

  ... coastal zones in the European Part of Russia: Modern Particularities within the Trend of Cross-Border Clustering // Journal of Applied Economic Sciences. 2017. Vol. 12, Iss. 5 (51). P. 1451—1460. Fedorov G. M. the Kaliningrad region, coastal regions, border regions, employment structure, employment dynamics, GRP structure, processing industries, development strategy 5-20

• Implementation of the INTERREG program in the Kaliningrad region and neighboring countries: a brief overview

  ... Cooperation (CBC) Pro­gramme 2014—2020 and «Poland — Russia» Interreg CBC Programme 2014—2020 have been the research subjects. The authors have identified the most active actors of cross-border cooperation from the Kaliningrad region and the border regions of Lithuania and Poland and have compared the out­comes with the results of the previous Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC) Pro­grammes. The research has recognized the municipalities constantly partici­pating in the projects, aimed at promoting ...

• Structural Changes in the Economy of the Russian Northwest: Spatial Dimension

  ... Ekonomika [Spatial Economics], no. 4, p. 82—99. 5. Savelyev, Yu. V., Tolstoguzov, O. V. (eds.) 2015, Osobennosti sotsial'noekonomicheskogo razvitiya i modernizatsii prigranichnogo regiona [Features of the socio-economic development and modernization of a border region], Petrozavodsk. 6. Rastvortseva, S. N. 2013 Upravleniye razvitiyem protsessov kontsentratsii ekonomicheskoy aktivnosti v regione: podkhody novoy ekonomicheskoy geografii [Regional economic activities processes development management: new economic ...

• Social and Economic Space Compression in Border Areas: the Case of the Northwestern Federal District

  ... development and its practice of state regulation], Moscow, p. 49—60. 20. Rodoman, B. B. 2004, Jekologicheskoe znachenie administrativnyh granic [The ecological value of the administrative boundaries], Problemy prigranichnyh regionov Rossii [Problems of border regions of Russia], materialy XXI ezhegodnoj sessii jekonomiko-geograficheskoj sekcii MARS [Materials XXI annual session of economic and geographic section MARS], Belgorod-Kharkov, 5—7 June 2004, Moscow, p. 82—85. 21. Rodoman, B. B. 2010, Setevye ...

• Coastal and western border centers in the system of large cities of modern Russia: socio-economic and innovation development.

  ... differentiation within the group of coastal cities, indicating that such trends are valid only at the national level. Differentiation and the gap on a number of indicators are fixed with respect to the group of Western Russian cities located in the border regions. It refutes the hypothesis on their advanced development due to external contact capacity (except the advanced indicators’ values on trade, driven by the role of logistical and transit centers). The study of differentiation using k-means clustering ...

• The Baltics in the Geography of the Largest Transnational Corporations of Europe

  ... perestrojka [Global restructuring], Moscow, p. 53—70. 9. Kuznetsov, A. 2012, Transborder corporate integration in the Baltic Sea Region, Balt. Reg., no. 1, p. 11—18. DOI: 10.5922/2079-8555-2012-1-2. 10. Kuznetsov, A. V., 2004, Mirohozjajstvennye svjazi ... ... Evropa [Modern Europe], no. 1, p. 60—69. Kuznetsov A. Baltic Sea States, transnational corporation, geographical segment, borders of Europe, foreign direct investment 25-35 10.5922/2079-8555-2015-1-2

• The Kaliningrad Region: Challenges of the Exclave Position and Ways to Offset Them

  ... of affairs in tourism, a promising area of regional specialization, demonstrates a dual effect of the exclave position, which can be considered both as a challenge and an opportunity. Sebentsov A. B., Zotova M. V. exclave, Kaliningrad region, border region economy, tourism, cross-border cooperation 89-106 10.5922/2079-8555-2018-1-6

• Rural areas of russia’s north-west borderland: problems and development paths

  ... 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 production: districts dominated by agricultural organisations, districts dominated by small farms, and mixed-type districts. Cross-district differences in ...