Cross-Border Tourist Routes: The Potential of Russia’s North- West
... Russia’s North-West. The author describes successful tourist routes within the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) crossborder cooperation programmes. Particular attention is paid to the routes in the Republic of Karelia — the Blue Road, the White Road, and the Mining Road. The article stresses the importance of developing transboundary tourist routes in the border regions of Russia’s North-West. Designing and developing transboundary tourist routes is a step towards a transboundary ...
Comparative analysis of the territorial support frame of settlement in coastal areas: the case of St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad regions
... supplemented with isolines reflecting the fields of the spatial structure of urban settlement. The settlement systems were analysed from the standpoint of transport communications, using the Engel and Goltz coefficients. The coefficient values show that road transport is the most developed in the study regions, while river transport is the least developed. It is concluded that spatial development is leading to urbanisation and reinforcing the monocentric model of spatial structure. However, the economic ...
One Belt - One Road Initiative: A Window of Opportunity for Russia’s Western Border Regions
... geo-economic transformations have been considerably affected by the development of the People’s Republic of China, its reviving leadership and ambitions, and its increasing efforts to reformat and integrate the Eurasian space. The One Belt — One Road Initiative is a manifesto and a tool to advance China’s long-term geostrategic interests that spread to the bordering states and regions and to the prospects of their socioeconomic development. The initiative encompasses transportation and logistics,...
Migration distances in Russia: a demographic profile of migrants
... proportion to the distance but rises nevertheless. In large-area countries, such as Russia, not only does long-distance migration require much time and finance, but it is associated with substantial travel-related difficulties: the poor quality of roads, the unavailability of direct travel options, and the need to change between modes of transport. The nature and climate of one’s region of origin may produce opposite effects: a migrant might strive to move to an area with similar or, on the contrary,...
Cross-border tourist mobility as seen by residents of the Karelian borderlands: COVID-19 restrictions
... Karelia had 609,000 inhabitants, of whom one fifth (18.7 %) lived in the border areas. The municipalities of the Republic are diverse in terms of geography, socioeconomic situation, transport and logistics (Table 1.). Three border municipalities operate road and rail border checkpoints. These are Vyartsilya-Niirala (handling 75 % of the total traffic across the Karelian stretch of the Russian-Finnish border, the Sortavala district), Lyuttya-Vartius (20 %, the Kostomuksha municipal district) and ...
The border as a barrier and an incentive for the structural economic transformation of the Kaliningrad exclave
... 2022, Russian ships were banned from entering EU ports, and the only company that continued feeder service to Kaliningrad ports was the Chinese COSCO. Increasingly thorough checks at the border with Lithuania starting in March created long queues at road border crossing points and reduced the number of wagon turnovers per month. Russian and Belarusian road haulers were banned from operating in the EU, trucking being one of the region’s specialisations. In June, with reference to the general requirements ...
Efficiency analysis of seaports in Russia’s Baltic basin: performance evaluation
... etc.). It should be noted that the level of development of the region’s transport and logistics infrastructure directly affects the efficient operation of a seaport, which serves as a transportation hub where various modes of transportation such as road, rail, and maritime interact. The work [11] highlights that the efficient organization of a seaport as a transportation hub, connecting the inland logistics infrastructure and maritime routes, can achieve the goal of minimizing transportation costs ...
The spread of the COVID-19 infection in Russia’s Baltic macro-region: internal differences
... entrepreneurs working in the transport industry, which had sustained substantial losses, received subsidies.<3> The latter fact stresses the significance of inter-municipality passenger traffic for the local economy: the density of hard surface roads in the region was 527 km/km2 in 2020 against 64 km/km2 on average in the country, 47 km/km2 in the Republic of Karelia and 24 km/km2 in the Murmansk region. Sergey Tarkhov has demonstrated that a territory’s accessibility by car has a key role ...
Cross-border digitalization of the western border of Russia: potential and prospects
... has been substantiated. It is concluded that political efforts for digital convergence in the western direction are being undertaken only between Russia and Belarus, although further intensification is required.
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The Art of «Leftist Obscenity» as a Way to Discredit the Imperial Regime: the Works of Eisenstien, Babel, and Lunacharsky
... of ‘leftist obscenity’, traces the emergence of the phenomenon, and analyses S. Eisenstein’s film ‘October’, A. Lunacharsky’s essay ‘Why we guard the palaces of the Romanovs (travel impressions)’, and I. Babel’s short story ‘The Road.’ The analysis of these works shows how the method of ‘leftist obscenity’ was employed in practice and leads to the conclusion that the method worked by producing a comic effect, which is easily communicated to the modern reader or the viewer....
The Baltics on Their Way towards a Circular Economy
Circular economy has been studied extensively both in Europe and worldwide. It is largely viewed as a potential strategy for societal development, aimed to increase prosperity while reducing dependence on raw materials and energy. Many businesses regard circular economy as a way to enhance economic growth and increase profits. Governments across the world actively engage in the discussion about the benefits of a transition to a circular economy and about its impact on employment, economic growth...
Development of Sea Port in Gdynia
... to ro-ro ships. Strategically important projects for the coming years include dredging and widening of the port channel, fairways and the internal basin. Cooperation between the port and the city authorities allowed the port administration to improve road access to the port of Gdynia. The key investment project aims to link the port of Gdynia to the TriCity ring road. Apart from it, there are plans to improve access to the railroad network. Railway line 201 to Bydgoszcz is to be modernised to transport ...
Mathematical simulation in road-building
Mathematical models for an estimation of quality of road-building materials are considered. The mathematical model of the modern asphalt-concrete factory with several asphalt-mixing installations is constructed. The technique of definition of reliability of work of a factory on release asphalt-concrete mixes is given.
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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 and identified certain patterns in road damage depending ...
EU-Russia cooperation in the Baltic Sea marine environment protection
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The development of cooperation between the European Union and Russia on migration issues: from „the „common spaces” to the actual implementation
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Geopolitical regionalisation of the Baltic area: the essence and historical dynamics
... railways, motor vehicles and air transport. Recent studies into the transport connectivity of the Baltic region tend to focus on land and air transport, often within the framework of programmes like VASAB.
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It is not surprising that projects for ring roads and railways have emerged. In the EU, approximately 40 % of freight is still transported by sea. What has remained virtually unchanged since the Middle Ages is the status of the Baltic Sea as a water basin open to international navigation; a similar ...
Regional railway transport system of the Transcaucasia: passenger direction of work
... completely discontinued. One notable exception in recent years is the Baku agglomeration. The decline can be attributed to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the subsequent fragmentation of the region's railway network, competition from air and road transport, as well as the specific transport policies in the countries of the region. The improvement of the situation is associated with the potential expansion of domestic railway communication as the population's income grows and as a result ...
Unveiling the unseen: the challenge of phenomenological conceptual untranslatables
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2686-7249-2022-4-300-311 (in Russ.).
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Three Russian Baltic regions in the context of confrontation between Russia and the West
This study examines the features, limitations and development prospects of three Russian territories bordering the Baltic Sea — St. Petersburg, and the Leningrad, and Kaliningrad region — amid the sharply heightened confrontation between Russia and the West, which has affected the Baltic region. The time frame spanning from 2014 to 2023 was chosen for the study. This period encompasses the sanctions imposed by Western countries and their associations, primarily the EU, in response to the return...
Societal security in the Baltic Sea Region: the Russian perspective
... least 5 million families annually and increasing the volume of housing construction to at least 120 million square meters per year;
• improving the quality of the urban environment by one and a half times;
• making sure that at least 85% of the road network in the largest urban agglomerations meets regulatory requirements;
• creating a sustainable solid municipal waste management system that ensures 100% waste sorting and reduces the volume of waste sent to landfills by half;
• reducing ...
The impact of the food embargo on consumer preferences and cross-border practices in the Kaliningrad region
... 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 % of residents of rural areas of the Kaliningrad region ...
Territorial structure of inbound and domestic tourism in the Baltic States
... indicator calculation were adopted before the countries acceded to the EU and in their first years as member states. But for the study to be fully comprehensive, some other indicators left out of the list should be explored as well, namely, rail and road density (useful in describing transport infrastructure), the contribution of tourism to the economy of each region and human resources available for the tourism industry. Unfortunately, these indicators have received little research attention due ...
Reputation core of Russian authorities: the case of the regional level of executive power
... “Russian authorities’ are responsible for the whole country whereas ‘regional authorities’ deal with our local affairs”;
— regional authorities have to face higher demands regarding the current state of affairs, such as city improvement, road works, and ensuring the proper functioning of medical institutions. This translates to greater expectations, requirements, and responsibility for the regional authorities in terms of reputational risks. However, they often lack the necessary power ...
The sea factor in the federal regulation of Russia’s spatial development: post-Soviet experience and current priorities
Current geoeconomic and geopolitical transformations project on Russian society and its spatial organisation, highlighting the problems of spatial socioeconomic development and its governmental regulation. This article examines the theoretical and applied aspects of the incorporation into the national regional policy of the sea factor, understood as a combination of location and resources, which is determined by a country’s jurisdiction over coasts and waters, its maritime activities and coastalisation...
Cities, mountains, roads... (the image of a city in formulaic paronymic collocations)
The article analyses the collocations of the lexeme 'gorod (city)' with its paronyms — words that are pronounced or written in a similar way, not necessarily connected etymologically. These collocations, which appear in paronymic attraction and repeated many times, are called formulaic. The research presented in the article confirms the assumption that the stable paronymic collocations do not unite random words but a type of mythologemes — 'gorod’, ‘gora’ and ‘doroga’. They...
The ‘Route from the Varangians to the Greeks’: truth or fiction
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English as a lingua franca — a paradigm shift for Translation and Interpreting
The global spread of English as a lingua franca (ELF) has caused a fundamental change to translation and interpreting (T&I). Translation and interpreting used to revolve around bilingual mediation between native speakers and native listeners. In interpreting, in particular, more often than not, source speeches are now produced by non-native English speakers. The impact of this development has the potential to uproot our traditional understanding of T&I. This article sets out to describe how ELF...
Spatial diffusion of Asian direct investments in the northern European EU countries
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Development of electric road transport: simulation modelling
Electric transport is rapidly gaining popularity across the world. It is an example of technological advancement that has multiple consequences for regional economies, both in terms of the adaptation of production, transport and energy systems and their spatial optimization. The experience of leading economic regions, including countries of the Baltic Sea region, shows that electric transport can potentially substitute traditional transport technologies. Based on an authentic model of system dynamics...
Tourism development in border areas: a benefit or a burden? The case of Karelia
... investigate the role of international border crossing points in the development of tourism in borderlands.
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borderlands, tourism, municipal districts, tourism infrastructure, tourist flow, road border crossing point, Republic of Karelia
Scenarios of increasing the economic efficiency of the Kaliningrad regional transport system
... ICT BEC-4). Our calculations show that higher value added and greater economic efficiency of a regional transport system are associated with re-orientation towards investment and consumer goods. The most visible effect is associated with rail and road transport. As to sea transport, the decisive role is played by an increase in the physical volume of cargo handled. The results of this study and its modelling tools can be applied in the analysis of the current situation and in the assessment ...
Current and Prospective Transport Connections between Poland’s Border Voivodeships and Russia’s Kaliningrad Region
... 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 cooperation was sustained by road, railway, and, to a degree, marine transport links. There is a vast variety of projects aimed to create new transport links between the border regions. These projects differ in timelines, scopes, and the range of resources required. In our opinion,...
Coastal and recreation landscape of Kaliningrad: modern potential and prospects for spatial development
The authors have conducted a comprehensive assessment of Kaliningrad suburban areas and identified the coastal landscape and recreation area within the ring road impact. Comprehensive analysis resulted in the typology of internal areas considering how favorable they can be for further recreation and tourism development. The article brings about certain ideas for the further use of Kaliningrad seaside ...
Three development strategies of the Kaliningrad region (1991—2018)
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regional strategy, special economic zone, cooperation region, development corridor, Greater Eurasia, Silk Road, Kaliningrad region
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Between faith and disbelief: the theme of life and death in Yu. N. Ivanov’s novel Dances in the Crematory: Ten Episodes from the Life of Königsberg
... God/devil), which reveal the author’s worldview and integrate semantically different dimensions of the novel — subjective, psychological, moral, philosophical, and fictional ones. These oppositions emphasise the novel’s leitmotif (the metaphor of the road as a person’s life journey) and its central moral-philosophical idea and dilemma — the tragic fate of a person who has chosen the independent path of overcoming death with life. I stress the correlation between the themes of life and death, which ...
Age-related characteristics of English, American, and Russian compliments
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Modern Hanseatic Trends in the Baltic Region
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Coalition Within a Coalition: The Baltics in the European Union
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Ideology of Armenian and Russian Orthodoxy in the mirror of ritual objects: khachkars and wayside crosses
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culture, religion, Christianity, Armenia, Eastern Slavs, khachkar, vishap, wayside cross, road chapel, paganism
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Eurasian Future of Russia: Alternating Integration and Disintegration Cycles
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Associative-semantic network principle of human mental thesaurus organization
Present paper is an endeavor to analyze the outcomes of the celebrated experiment Violin, expressing the structure of associative-semantic links in human brain. Based upon evidence gained from objective neurophysiological methods, certain dictionary articles of the Associative Thesaurus of the Russian Language have thus been analyzed. A comparative analysis of behavioral experiments is offered based on which associative dictionaries have been compiled-alongside with objective experiments of the data...
Lithuania in Context of Eurointegration Processes: from Luxembourg to Helsinki
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Identification of palladium and rhodium mobility in atmospheric precipitation
A series extraction of platinum metals (Pd and Rh) from natural sedimentary samples near the trunk-roads of Rhine-Westphalia was conducted. The authors make an assumption about the mechanism of influence of environmental conditions on the mobility of elements studied.
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The role of transborder cooperation in the increase of innovative potential of the Baltic region
The article aims at analyzing the role of cross-border cooperation in the development of innovation potential of the Baltic Sea Region. The author analyzes the projects in the framework of the Neighborhood Programs implemented in 2000—2006 and related to the development of innovation potential in the Baltic Sea Region, particularly in the South-East Baltic. The author makes the conclusion about the need to increase the share of innovative projects with the participation of the regions of North-West...
The epiphytic lichens growing on roadside deciduous trees in the north-west of the Kaliningrad region
This article presents the first attempt to study the fruticose and foliose lichens of the pre-war plantings alongside minor roads in the Slavsk district of the Kaliningrad region. It is the first study of the deciduous roadside plantings in this area. The authors determined predominant species, analysed the wood species composition and came to the conclusion that the predominant ...