Population change and the settlement system transformation in Poland, as revealed by the 2021 census
... The large voivodeships aligned along the Vistula ‘axis’ — Mazowiecka, Lesser Poland and Pomerania — outperform other Polish regions in geodemographic terms. The situation is relatively favourable in Greater Poland, where the country’s main motorways converge. Districts and voivodeships where the geodemographic situation is more vulnerable can be divided into two groups: depressed and backward. The first one includes the traditionally industrial voivodeships of Southern and Central Poland; ...
Comparative analysis of the territorial support frame of settlement in coastal areas: the case of St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad regions
... Kirovsk. Volkhov, Lodeynoe Pole, Podporozheyv (a railway axis);
— southeastern, from Tikhvin;
— southern, from Tosno;
— southwestern, from Gatchina and Luga;
— western, from Kingisepp and Ivangorod;
— St. Petersburg Southern half-ring A-120 (motorway).
The planning axes of the territorial support frame of the Kaliningrad regions are as follows:
— Kaliningrad — Mamonovo;
— Kaliningrad — Chernyakhovsk;
— the ring road connecting the resort towns.
The spatial structures of the St. ...
On the influence of lithogenic factors on the condition of motorways in the Smolensk region
This article offers information on the condition of motorways in the Smolensk region. The condition of local roads is considered in relation to the particle size structure of covering rocks. The authors conducted an analysis of performance characteristics of road surfaces within different natural complexes ...
The geopolitical effect of the maritime factor on the spatial development of post-Soviet Russia: the Baltic case
... Russian maritime hubs in terms of workforce, market share and production facilities by extending their influence to adjacent territories as part of agglomeration and inter-municipal and interregional integration. For example, the modernisation of federal motorways adjacent to Rostov-on-Don caused the demographic capacity of the expanded agglomeration to increase by one-third, reaching 2.5 million people. Linking the agglomeration to Donetsk and Mariupol will form a space unified in economic and settlement ...
The impact of the food embargo on consumer preferences and cross-border practices in the Kaliningrad region
... of Lithuanian goods among them is higher. In the case of Kaliningrad, this is due to the greater population mobility, which is generally characteristic of residents of large cities. In the border municipality of Bagrationovk, through which the main motorways to Poland go and where there are several road border crossing points, more than three-quarters of the population live in rural areas and do not have ample opportunities to travel abroad. According to the survey, until 2014, more than 40 % ...
The spread of the COVID-19 infection in Russia’s Baltic macro-region: internal differences
... responses to the spatial spread of COVID-19 were differentiated by the type of diffusion into horizontal diffusion restrictions affecting the local labour market (commuting) and hierarchical diffusion restrictions limiting traffic along a region’s motorways.
A special case was camps of rotational workers and isolated hotbeds, such as covenants, monasteries, retirement homes and in-patient psychiatric care facilities, where the number and scale of the pandemic outbreaks were particularly significant ...