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• The Development of Russian Social Geography: Challenges, Trends, Priorities

  Promoting the development of social geography (one of the most important components of present-day social sciences) is especially important for contemporary Russia. In the last 25 years Russian social geography has seen dramatic disciplinary changes. On the one hand, it has widened its scope. On the other hand, it has suffered from a growing contradiction between the popularization of the social geographic knowledge, the need to have a clear understanding of the factors and results of a multi-scale...

• Russian Socio-Economic Geography: Status, Challenges, Perspectives

  The socio-economic geography studies the processes, characteristics and patterns of spatial development. In the recent decades, however, this area of scientific investigation has failed its promise, which happened for a number of external and internal reasons. The main external reason is the development of "consumer society", which does not require the search of new space and therefore ignores the "spatial" science, geography. Internal reason is the blurring of socio-economic...

• Framework for the Analysis of Geography of Transnational Corporations Investments Abroad

  This article develops a methodology for studying the geography of companies — an area of human geography that remains understudied in Russia. The authors refer to foreign direct investment (FDI) studies to stress the importance of analysing individual transnational corporations. Special attention is paid to FDI statistics, including international statistics provided by IMF, OECD, and UNCTAD, the official data of central banks on FDI destinations, and information on companies’ assets by geographical...

• Russia’s Coastal Zone as a Social and Geographic Phenomenon: Conceptualisation and Delimitation

  This article defines coastal zones as a priority subject of studies in social geography and interprets coastalisation of population and economy as a key indicator of the development of a coastal zone. The author stresses the inverted coastalisation in Russia at the macro- and meso-levels and identifies its causes. The article defines the coastal zone as a full-scale, continuum-discrete phenomenon with clear crossborder characteristics and increased potential for cluster formation in the economy....

• The development of poli­tical geography and geopolitics as an academic and research discipline in the Baltic re­gion: the historical contribution of Saint Petersburg University

  In this article, we address the little-researched and complicated problems of the genesis, periodisation, and development of political geography and geopolitics as academic and re­search disciplines across the Baltic region in general and the contribution of Saint Peters­burg University in particular. The terms ‘political geography,’ ‘geopolitics’ and the corre­sponding academic disciplines, as well as the first concepts of political geography and geo­politics, emerged in the Baltic. The Russian...

• Modern understanding of ‘geoeconomic position’ and the Saint Petersburg agglomeration

  ... Prostranstvo i razvitie Rossii: polimasshtabnyj analiz [Space and Development in Russia: Analysis polimasshtabny], Vestnik Rossijskoj akademii nauk [Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences], Vol. 79, no. 2, p. 101—112. 2. Smith, A. 2002, Imagining geographies of the ‘new Europe’: geo-economic power and the new European architecture of integration, Political Geography, Vol. 21. 3. Gubanova, T. E. (comp.), 1987, Jekonomicheskaja i social'naja geografija v SSSR: Istorija i sovremennoe razvitie ...

• The concept of “network” in the system of basic concepts of regional economic geography

  The concept of “network” is traditionally used in sociological and economic sciences and serves as an in important object of research on the organisational forms of different phenomena and processes. This article examines the use of the “network” concept in socioeconomic geography through identifying the place of this concept in the system of traditional concepts of this branch of geography: spatial system, territorial production complex, and cluster. The interaction between networks on a certain...

• The Coastal Regions of Europe: Economic Development at the Turn of the 20th Century

  ....75;mode=1;pos=11.754:53.652:4;theme=2:0.75:1 (accessed 12.03.2014). 38. Maritime affairs, 2014, European Atlas of the Seas, available at: URL: http://ec.europa.eu/maritimeaffairs/policy/blue_growth/infographics/# (accessed 12.03.2014). 39. Verlaque, Ch. 1974, Geographie des transports maritimes, Paris. Makhnovsky D. coastal regions, Europe, EU, socioeconomic development, maritime industry, territorial structure of economy, gross regional product, population 50-66 10.5922/2074-2079-8555-4-4

• Was wusste Kant über Asien? Hinweise und Überlegungen zu Kants Interesse an Fragen der Geographie

  Unterstützt durch zehn Abbildungen wird erstens versucht, den Umständen nachzuspüren, die Kant´s Interesse an der Geographie geweckt und aufrecht erhalten haben. Zweitens werden die kartographischen und literarischen Quellen im Umriß skizziert, aus denen Kant den Stoff für den Abschnitt über ›Asien‹ in seinen Vorlesungen über Physische Geographie bezogen ...

• Changes in the cultural landscape of the Kaliningrad region’s periphery in the 19th/20th centuries

  ... [Subject and historical geography tasks], Istorik-marksist [Marxist historian], no. 5, p. 20—25. 23. Bachor, O. 1968, Der Kreis Gerdauen, Würzburg. 24. Barran, F. R. 1988, Städte-Atlas Ostpreußen, Leer, 223 S. 25. Diercke-Wörterbuch Allgemeine Geographie, 1997, Verlag Westermann. 26. Eisenbahn Kurier Special, 1999, no. 52, Ostpreußen. 27. Grabo, R. 1910, Die ostpreußische Strassen im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert, Königsberg, 124 S. 28. Gusovius, P. 1966, Der Landkreis Samland, Würzburg. ...

• 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 was based on the following parameters: the area of cultivated agricultural land and the rate of change, the grain yield and its dy­namics. Database analysis from 1848—52 until 2015—18 allowed to identify the stages of the agricultural land management...

• Territorial-political and regional geopolitical systems: correlation of concepts

  The article examines the notions of ‘territorial political system’ and ‘regional geopolitical system' as well as a correlation between them from the viewpoint of the socalled activity-based geospatial approach. A regional geopolitical system includes geopolitical relations between the states within the region and those with powerful external actors. A geopolitical region itself can be characterized by integration, autonomization or a permanent geopolitical conflict. A territorial political system...

• The Baltics and Russian North-West: the Core and the Periphery in the 2000s

  This article analyses population changes in North-West regions of Russia (the former North-Western economic zone and the Kaliningrad region) and the Baltics at the level of urban districts and municipalities. The cohort component method is used to analyze the youth population dynamics in the administrative territorial units of this level, which makes it possible to estimate the international (intraregional) migration of this population group. This method is used quite rarely, yet it is more accurate...

• The influence of the sea on the economic development and settlement structure in the Baltic Sea region

  Earliest studies into the influence of the sea on the economy and settlement structure date back to the mid-19th century. They became common in the 20th century. Researchers have come to a general understanding that a coastal position has a beneficial effect on the development of regions. Such areas have a denser population and develop more rapidly than inland regions. At the same time, the effect of environmental, socioeconomic, demographic, and political factors is often stronger than the influence...

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

  ....ca/onris/research_review/WorkingPapers/WorkingDOCS/Working01/Morgan01_Death.pdf (accessed 11.03.2015). 34. Rodrigue, J. P., Comtois, C., Slack, B. 2009, The Geography of transport systems, New York, Routledge, 352 p. 35. Warf, B. 2008, Time Space Compression: Historical Geographies, NY, Routledge. 36. Warf, B. 2011, Teaching Time-Space Compression, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, no. 35(2), p. 143—161. 37. Federal State Statistics Service, available at: http://www.gks.ru/ (accessed 11.02.2015). 38. The ...

• The coastalisation of population in today’s Russia: A sociogeographical explication

  The coastalisation of population is considered as a prolonged, universal, although not a ubiquitous — socio-geographical process. This process is a result of the evolving spatial architecture of countries and regions, a lack of balance between the potential of leading cities, economic and settlement projections of global geoecological, geo-economic, and geopolitical processes, the scale and effect of transnational and transboundary contracts, and the changing images of coastal areas. This article...

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

  Sweden’s tourism industry stands out for its large contribution to the development of the national economy. The vast size of the country makes it possible to trace differences in incoming tourist flows from neighbouring countries. This circumstance accounts for the novelty of this study, which lies in viewing 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...

• Cultural and landscape zoning in the North- West Russia

  This research was conducted in the framework of cultural geography — a relatively recent field of geography. This article considers the problems of geographical study of cultural landscapes of the North-West Russia, which includes Saint Petersburg, the Leningrad, Novgorod, Pskov, and Kaliningrad regions. This article sets out to develop and test the methodology for historical and cultural zoning at the mesogeographical level. The research and practical significance of the work lies in the identification...

• The transnational territorial transport system of the Baltic Region

  In this paper we focus on the structure and territorial borders of the Baltic Sea region, and examine the key structural elements of the transnational territorial transport system. In this respect, we clarify some terms used in transport geography. For the first time the transport system gets territorially localized, which allows for a broad range of new studies of transnational transportation in the Baltic Sea area. We also identify the main principles of development and operation of international...

• Integrity and Objectives of Modern Geography

  The article considers the concept of geography in the context of integrity of its natural -ecological and socio-economic elements. The change of the postulates of classical geography on the basis of new (non-linear) thinking and the perception of the new picture of the world and its cognition by means of a new interdisciplinary language is proven to be necessary. 1.        География мирового развития. Вып. 1 / под ред. А.   М. Синцерова. М., 2009. 2.        Глобальный город: теория и реальность...

• Trade Liberalisation and its Impact on Regional Development: Theoretical and Experimental Studies

  The existing theoretical and empirical literature focusing on interconnections between international trade, trade liberalisation, and economic development provides ample evidence pertaining to nations and industries. However, another dimension of trade liberalisation — the assessment of the level of national or regional development — needs further research. This article sets out to analyse theoretical and empirical research works focusing on a varied spatial effect of expanding international trade...

• The concepts of enclave and exclave and their use in the political and geographical characteristic of the Kaliningrad region

  This article focuses on the genesis of and correlation between the related concepts of enclave and exclave and the scope of their use in different sciences, fields of knowledge, and everyday speech. The author examines the circumstances of their emergence in the reference and professional literature in the Russian language. Special attention is paid to the typology of the world’s enclave territories as objects of political geography; at the same time, their new categories and divisions (international...

• Current Issues in the Geodemographic Studies in Russia

  The article takes stock of the “state of affairs” in contemporary research of geographical demography in the USSR and the RF. The issue, concludes the author, has not received sufficient attention, and the use of geodemographic studies in managing regional development remains limited. This article aims to demonstrate three things: the importance of geodemographic approach in comprehensive regional studies to the needs of regional strategic planning; the key features of geodemographic typology of...

• Innovative development of rural settlements of the Leningrad region

  ... Bathelt, P. Cohendet, S. Henn, L. Simon (eds.) // The Elgar companion to innovation and knowledge creation. Ed­ward Elgar Publishing, 2017. P. 440—456. doi: 10.4337/9781782548522.00037. 20. Shearmur R., Carrincazeaux C., Doloreux D. Handbook on the geographies of innovation. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016. doi: 10.4337/9781784710774. 21. Sikora-Fernandez D. Smarter cities in post-socialist country: example of Poland // Cities. 2018. № 78. P. 52—59. doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2018.03.011. 22....

• Geography of European Migration

  In recent decades, the role of international migration has increased dramatically in most European countries. The growth in migration has made some authors proclaim the beginning of a second Migration Period that could transform the social and cultural identity of Europe. The article presents an analysis of international migration geography in Europe in the last twenty-five years. The authors identify the main trends in migration, provide migration profiles of European countries, and propose a classification...

• Key Directions of Sectoral and Spatial Changes in the Russian Industry

  This article considers major trends in the spatial and sectoral structure of national production and analyses the patterns of transformation of industrial systems into integrated industrial complexes, which show higher efficiency in transit condiétions. The author presents a new approach to studying the structural transformation of industrial systems during the transition of the national economy, which will make it possible to identify major trends in national production. The article seeks to draw...

• Modern geopolitical research in Russia

  In this article, we present the results of our study into the contribution of geography to modern geopolitics in Russia. We stress the interdisciplinary nature of geopolitical studies and identify ensuing problems. Using content analysis of the eLIBRARY bibliography data­base and Elsevier’s abstract and citation database Scopus, we conclude that geography has considerably affected the development of modern geopolitics in Russia. The contribution of geographers is rather modest considering the number...

• Changes in the ethnic composition of the population of North- West Russia in the 18th -19th centuries

  The launch of the ‘Historical Geography of Russia’ project in Russia’s larger historical and geographical regions necessitated the development of new research methods and the evaluation of traditional ones. The article considers the use of the time slicing method in the historical geography of Russia’s North-West. The temporal scope of the study is the early 18th — late 19th century. The article describes changes in the selected ethnic groups in North-West Russia (Ozernaya oblast’) and in some other...

• The Denominational Space of Modern Sweden: Christianity

  This article considers spatial and temporal diffusion of Christian values in Sweden and examines the features of the country’s confessional space. The work aims to identify historical and geographical characteristics of the formation of Sweden’s Christian space and of its current transformation. Another objective is to introduce data on the economic activities of large religious organisations into scholarly use. The relevance of this work lies in the fact that Christianity is the most popular religion...

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

  This paper identifies and explains the trends in the economic transformations in the Russian Northwest (NWFD). It studies the changes in the structure of the gross regional product (GRP) and economic specialization of the NWFD regions. The authors suggest approaches to managing structural changes in the economies of the NWFD regions. The authors propose a new method for the identification of the regional economic specialization on the basis of the reginal economy sectoral development rate. The article...

• The Tourist and Recreation Potential of Historical Cities in North-West Russia

  ... Vol. 9, no. 2, p. 4—18. doi: 10.5922/2079-8555-2017-2-1. 26. Carriere, F., Pinchemel, P. 1963, Le fait urbaine en France, Paris, p.346. 27. Eurostat, available at: http://ec.europa.on/eurostat (accessed 07.07.2017). 28. George, P. 1960, Question de geographie de la population, Paris, p.229. 29. Harris, C. D. 1970, Cities of the Soviet Union, Chicago, p. 484. 30. Joenniemi, P., Sergunin, A. 2011, Sity-Twinning in Northern Europe: Challenger and Opportunities, Saarbriichen, p.108. 31. Brecker, J. ...

• Geosituational Modelling of Coastal Marine Systems

  The article summarizes years of experience of geosituational modelling of coastal marine systems in the Baltic Sea region and adjacent territories. Kaliningrad universities and academic institutions have done extensive research on the diversity of approaches and models of the regional geosituations as well as on identifying the most promising coastal marine areas. Some of the models presented in the present paper are qualitative, while others are empirical and statistical ones. However, the majority...

• Methods of spatial scientometrics in the study of countries and region

  The article focuses on the approaches that explain the essence of scien­to­metrics as a set of methods for studying science. The paper also discusses the use of scientometric instruments in the spatial analysis of the geography of knowledge. The countries of the Baltic region were taken as an example. The empirical base of the research was the international database Scopus and an analytical tool for monitoring and analyzing scientific research — SciVal. On the basis of three methods of spatial scientometrics...

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• Economic, social and political geography

• Physical Geography, Geo-ecology and Oceanology

• Economic geography and regional economics

• Economic, social and political geography

• Physical Geography, Geo-ecology and Oceanology

• Social geography and regional sociology

• Economic geography and regional economics

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