Lifestyles of Kaliningrad youth
Based on an analysis of leisure and consumer practices of students of two leading Kaliningrad universities, this paper attempts to reconstruct the actual space of Kaliningrad youth lifestyles, as well as to identify and describe groups following these lifestyles in socio-economic ...
Cultural and leisure activities in the Kaliningrad region in the second half of 1940s—1980s
The article analyses cultural life and leisure activities in the Kaliningrad region during the Soviet period. The concepts of “leisure”, “free time” at different times were different in contents. On the one hand, leisure was understood as time when people recharged after hard work,...
Cross-border tourist mobility as seen by residents of the Karelian borderlands: COVID-19 restrictions
... residing in the Karelian borderlands and, at the same time, a promising area for the development of international tourism in the republic. It consists of mutual travel of the region’s residents and their Finnish counterparts for tourism, shopping and leisure. This article aims to answer the questions as to the role of transboundary tourist mobility in the life of the local community and the differences between the interior and border municipalities in this respect. To answer them, I draw on the results ...
A Königsberg society of friends without Kant
... communities of friends in Königsberg. Gathering friends at a dining table for the purpose of intellectual communication became a tradition in Königsberg in the 17th/18th centuries. This tradition created a sub-system of creative communication and leisure bringing together both nobility and aristocracy and ordinary curious citizens. The reasons behind this phenomenon were the geographical, geopolitical, and cultural and historical position of Königsberg — a large provincial trade and cultural ...
Modern trends in paradiplomacy: a case of Russian-Finnish regional cooperation
... cycle paths.<3> The cities continued to use the border as a resource for exchanging positive practices aimed at cooperation and strengthening interaction. Later, the number of economic contacts increased, owing to the development of shopping and leisure tourism.
In the late 1990s, the self-positioning of Svetogorsk and Imatra as a ‘dual city’ began [27]. Until 2013, the local authorities had implemented the strategy of international cooperation “Imatra-Svetogorsk Twin Cities”,<4> ...
The impact of the food embargo on consumer preferences and cross-border practices in the Kaliningrad region
... Kaliningrad region’s population visited Poland, and 17.8 % — Lithuania. High travel intensity (once a month or more) is typical for 11.4 and 3.4 % of the population, respectively.
Among the purposes of trips to Poland, the first place is shared by leisure (visiting museums, cafes, cultural events, and attractions) and food shopping. In trips to Lithuania, the latter was not so popular due to the higher cost of products.
Among the cross-border practices, the centre-peripheral gradient is clearly ...
Territorial structure of inbound and domestic tourism in the Baltic States
... business tourism centres. This is partially due to the fact that the capital regions take priority in national economic development planning. A comfortable urban environment is being created by building new houses, renovating old ones, opening shopping and leisure spaces, and perking up museums and theatres. The airports of all the three capitals have been reconstructed since 2007. A trend particularly important for a common tourism and recreational space is the new type of business tourism dubbed ‘bleisure’ ...
Representation of the image of Kaliningrad in the names of guided city tours
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Towards a classification of transboundary tourist and recreation mesoregions in the Baltic region
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Actualization of the dialectical unity of “Friend-foe” in the ideological attitudes of G. Radtke’s novel “Die Tätowierten”
... the analysis of theoretical sources, the method of continuous sampling, linguistic analysis of contextual blocks of the story, and establishes the spheres of human activity that represent the rejection of the values of a hostile ideology: appearance, leisure, work, moral principles, upbringing and re-education of the younger generation in the right ideological way. A connection is established between the external and internal manifestations of ideological attitudes, which is especially pronounced ...
Crimea in the legacy of B. D. Grekov, fellow of the Academy of Sciences
Crimea holds a very special place in the biography of B. D. Grekov (1882—1953), an outstanding Russian historian and a fellow of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Crimea was his long-standing research interest and a place of work and leisure. Some of his years spent in Crimea were very productive, and others were hard and lean. This article presents archive materials and other publications to analyse the stages and episodes of the scholar’s life and oeuvre in Crimea.
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Tourist attractiveness of Kaliningrad
... attractiveness ranking for cities in the world and in Russia. It also refers to an opinion poll on touristic attractiveness of Kaliningrad among residents and tourists. The city has been evaluated on various criteria. It helped to identify the most popular leisure and recreational activities.
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The theoretical framework of the process of social and pedagogical support for children at a teen club
This article analyses the theoretical framework for supporting activities at cultural and leisure establishments, particularly, teen clubs. The authors present a model of socio-pedagogical support for children at teen clubs and describe its goals and objectives, principles, stages, and ways of practical implementation. The article emphasizes ...
Cross-border Tourism in the Russian Northwest: General Trends and Features of Development
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