Comparative analysis of the territorial support frame of settlement in coastal areas: the case of St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad regions
... — remain valid research objects. Achieving corresponding theoretical and practical goals requires qualitative and quantitative analysis of urbanisation in coastal areas. This article aims to determine whether the territorial support frameworks of settlement in the St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad regions meet the modern conditions of settlement system development. A cartographic modelling of the settlement structures of the two Russian regions was carried out using Golden Software Surfer 20. The ...
Spatial differentiation of rural territories in the Kaliningrad region: implications for socio-economic policies
The article analyses the challenges associated with the development of rural areas in the Kaliningrad region. The author analyses trends in the development of agriculture, population dynamics, and settlement patterns, while also exploring their interconnectedness and external impacts. The research draws upon comparative-geographical, economic-statistical, and cartographic analyses utilizing official statistical data. The study reveals that since ...
The effect of geographical position and employment fluctuations on rural settlement trends
Structural changes in the economy and spatial and inter-settlement differences in living standards and quality of life lead to fundamental alterations in the national settlement system. Settlement polarisation is gathering momentum, along with the movement of rural population from Russia’s east and north to its southern and metropolitan regions. These processes benefit urban agglomerations. Typological differences ...
Transport connectivity as a factor in overcoming challenges of the periphery: the case of rural areas in the Kaliningrad region
... the region. The most alarming trend is the incipient concentration of population in peripheral border areas.
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2. Nefedova, T.G., Treivish, A.I 2020, Polarization and compression of the developed spaces in the center ...
The geopolitical effect of the maritime factor on the spatial development of post-Soviet Russia: the Baltic case
... geopolitical processes on the spatial organisation of society, a matter that has gained increasing importance in Russia. It focuses on the utilization of the World Ocean and its coastlines for resource extraction, logistics, military-strategic purposes, and settlement. Methodologically, this study combines modern socio-geographical approaches emphasising the role of the maritime factor in spatial development with classical geopolitical ideologemes drawing a line between the land and the sea. It stresses ...
Changes in the cultural landscape of the Kaliningrad region’s periphery in the 19th/20th centuries
... Owing to its history, the Kaliningrad region boasts a unique combination of cultural landscape elements. Thus, the genesis and development conditions of the region’s cultural landscape are important aspects for the identification of its components — settlement pattern, settlement hierarchy, land use type, transport system, economic ties, etc. It is well known that the key role in the formation of a cultural landscape is played by the level of socioeconomic relations, which affects the landscape type ...
Settlement system of the Kaliningrad region: dasymetric analysis
The article examines the settlement system of the Kaliningrad region using the dasymetric method, first proposed in the early 20th century by the Russian geographer V. P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky as a more precise alternative to population density cartograms. Several dasymetric ...
The modern economy of Russia’s Baltic regions in the municipal context
... economic response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the dramatic changes in the geopolitical and geoeconomic situation in 2022.
The analyzed municipalities exhibit internal heterogeneity, particularly those encompassing both urban and rural areas or varying settlement sizes. It is essential to acknowledge that economic statistics are specifically reported for municipalities, primarily focusing on municipal areas/districts and urban districts. However, in the Kaliningrad region, there has been no settlement-level ...
Internet diffusion and interregional digital divide in Russia: trends, factors, and the influence of the pandemic
... Europe.
When describing the spatial patterns of diffusion, three main models are distinguished [18], [20]: areal (or neighbourhood), cascade (or hierarchical) and network (chain). In the first case, the diffusion firstly goes from the core to the nearest settlements, in the second it is going according to the hierarchy of cities, and in the third – according to the network principle. It is also possible to single out a directive form of distribution, when the state determines the directions and ways ...
On strengthening the territorial differentiation of the rural population and the agrarian sector of the economy in the Russian Federation
Rural settlement in Russia and its dynamics are subject to the general laws of spatial development of the economy and demography, the most important of which is polarization. At the same time, regional settlement systems differ greately due to both physical ...
The coastalisation of population in today’s Russia: A sociogeographical explication
... 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 analyses the trend towards the ‘drift’ ...
Seasonal Larva Number Dynamics and Settlement of Juvenile Zebra Mussel (Dreissena polymorpha Pallas) in the Prybrezhny Quarry (the Kaliningrad region)
... end of August. The peaks of abundance were registered in the middle of July and in the beginning of August. The larvae accounted for 33% of the total zooplankton abundance. The size of larvae varied from 100 to 375 μm. The beginning of the juvenile settlement was observed in July. Colony mud accumulation is considered having a negative effect on successful settlement and survival of juveniles.
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The sea factor in the federal regulation of Russia’s spatial development: post-Soviet experience and current priorities
... settlement-related and psychological elements of the latter. The article describes the key influences of the sea factor on the spatial development of post-Soviet Russia. The steadily growing impact of maritime activities on the spatial-economic and settlement dynamics has been given a new impetus by the rising geostrategic, resource and transport-logistic significance of the World Ocean, as well as its water and water-land substructures, amid increasing military-strategic confrontation and geoeconomic ...
Population and settlement of the Kaliningrad region at the beginning of 2023
... population in 1947—2023 and the dynamics components in 1990—2022 in comparison with the national average (based on the official statistics). The authors reveal some territorial features of the demographic processes, such as the development of settlement polarization and suburbanization, as well as the fundamental geodemographic differences between the near suburban zone of Kaliningrad and less urbanized eastern municipalities. It is proposed to use the concept of the Unified Settlement System ...
Refugees from Syria and Iraq in Sweden: resettlement during the migration crisis
The vast increase in the number of forced migrants during the European migration crisis has compelled the receiving countries to concentrate on the issues of migrant reception and accommodation. This study aims to demonstrate how the patterns of settlement of Syrian and Iraqi migrants changed in 2014—2019. We propose a new methodology, building on the Herfindahl-Hirschman index, an indicator of the level and direction of the spatial concentration—deconcentration of migrants, and the Ryabtsev ...
Transformation of the settlement system in the Kaliningrad region
In the Kaliningrad region, as well as in other regions of Russia, the center-peripheral model of economic development directly affects the transformation of the regional settlement system. Over the past 10 years, the dynamics of the population in rural settlements of the region has been determined by agglomeration and transport-geographical factors. The analysis of changes in the population of 1,068 settlements in the ...
Innovative development of rural settlements of the Leningrad region
... not only megalopolises and large industrial cities, but also rural areas. The issue of innovative development of the countryside has acquired particular prominence in the context of securing human capital and preventing the marginalization of rural settlements, though creating a favorable environment for life and business in particular. At the initial stage, the innovation of rural areas is associated with the diffusion and implementation of innovations in the economy and social sectors, as well ...
Approaches to the Definition of the Baltic Sea Region
... dikhotomiya v mezhdunarodnom i regional'nom razvitii [Continental-oceanic dichotomy in international and regional development], Novosibirsk, 369 p. (In Russ.)
3. Druzhinin A. G., Lachininsky S. S., Krasnov A. I., Sorokin I. S., 2016, Polarization of the settlement system in the coastal zone of the Leningrad Region in 1989—2015, Izvestiya vysshikh uchebnykh zavedenii. Severo-Kavkazskii region. Seriya: estestvennye nauki [News of higher educational institutions. North-Caucasian region. Series: natural ...
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 ...
Spatial and dynamic approach in the study of rural settlement in the Pskov region from 1862 to 1926
The article applies the spatial-dynamic approach to carry out an analysis of the rural settlement in the Pskov region in the provincial time. The study covers the period from the middle of the XIX century up to 1926. The first general census of the Russian Empire (1897) has been chosen as an interim date for the analysis of dynamic processes....
The effect of railway network evolution on the Kaliningrad region’s landscape environment
This article addresses methodology of modern landscape studies from the perspective of natural and man-made components of a territory. Railway infrastructure is not only an important system-building element of economic and settlement patterns; it also affects cultural landscapes. The study of cartographic materials and historiography made it possible to identify the main stages of the development of the Kaliningrad railway network in terms of its territorial scope and to ...
The Evolution of Settlement Areas of Ingrian Finns in Northwest Russia in the Second Half of the 20th Century
... the Soviet Union and in the Russian Federation, as well as on the contemporary data of the Estonian Department of Statistics, the author of this article studies the spatial aspects of the dynamics of the ethnic area of Ingrian Finns within their main settlement area. This is done through utilizing ethnicity-related statistical data of the district at the lowest level of administrative division. The author emphasises a significant increase in the rates of degradation of the Ingiran settlement area ...
Modern trends in paradiplomacy: a case of Russian-Finnish regional cooperation
... referred to as twin cities in academic literature [25], [26] and legal documents.<1>
After the Second World War, the Soviet-Finnish border was redrawn. Then, two cities, Imatra and Svetogorsk, emerged as a result of partition and duplication. The settlement cluster around the Finnish industrial town of Enso was once a single entity. However, after the war, the settlement was divided into two cities on different sides of the state border. The part of the settlement that remained in Finland was ...
Population change and the settlement system transformation in Poland, as revealed by the 2021 census
... majority of the migrants, had to adjust to city life” [9, p. 85]. The path for the rehabilitation of rural areas in the north and west of present-day Poland was creating large agricultural enterprises on vast tracts of land [10] mainly relying on urban settlements abandoned by Germans. Those who have worked and continue to work in these enterprises have been and remain agricultural workers rather than peasants dominating eastern Poland. An integral part of ruralization in the country is suburbanization,...
Migration distances in Russia: a demographic profile of migrants
... paper aims to calculate the average distance of domestic migrations in Russia between 2011 and 2020, considering various migrant profiles such as sex, age, and type of residential registration. The Euclidean distance between 130,000 geocoded Russian settlements was computed to estimate migration distances. These geospatial data enabled us to obtain estimations of migration distances by weighting the total distance of all migrations based on their respective numbers. The distance of internal migration ...
The spread of the COVID-19 infection in Russia’s Baltic macro-region: internal differences
... relationship with the core-centre of St. Petersburg can be described by the von Thünen’s model. The Kaliningrad region was the leader in the number of
COVID-19 regulations brought in by city districts, which points to the largely urban system of settlement in the territory. The Republic of Karelia adopted an extremely centralised approach to COVID-19 responses with few regulations adopted at the municipal level: the regional authorities made decisions applicable to all the municipalities. The ...
Territorial differentiation of the rural population of the Kaliningrad region
... particular, they have a higher level of transport connectivity and a more developed infrastructure, compared with an average rural territory of Russia. The purpose of this article is to assess the degree of influence of agricultural development on the rural settlement process (the case of the southeastern part of the Kaliningrad region). The study examines the main economic and ekistical indicators of territory development including the indicators of the share of the rural population in the total regional ...
Extralinguistic factors of city renaming in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic
... study of toponymy, in particular, the oikonyms of a certain territory, is of great importance for the study of the history, ethnography, and culture of the people living in this territory. The purpose of this work is to identify the original names of settlements and study new names of cities, which will contribute to a more fruitful study of socio-historical processes and lexical-semantic transformations in the language of the inhabitants of these settlements. This is especially true for studying ...
Geodemography of the Saint Petersburg Suburbs
... over 1.6 million people. To this end, we employ statistical, historical, and empirical research methods and carry out a comparative analysis. Geodemographic studies should take into account not only demographic data but also the characteristics of the settlement system. Such studies are particularly important for suburbs. Russian social geography pays little attention to suburban studies, although such territories have become an independent object of research in international geographical science. ...
Workers’ settlements in the Kaliningrad region and their subsequent renaming in 1946—1947
... documents from the State Archive of the Russian Federation, the Russian State Archives of Socio- Political History, and the State Archive of the Kaliningrad Region to trace the Russianisation of German toponyms. The decision to establish workers’ settlements in the Kaliningrad region was discussed in September 1946 — July 1947. Local authorities sought to create more settlements of the kind. However, the RSFSR leadership insisted on the establishment of one resort settlement and four workers’ ...
Russia’s Coastal Zone as a Social and Geographic Phenomenon: Conceptualisation and Delimitation
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The role of small and semi-medium-sized towns in solving the problems of regional development
The article focuses on the problems related to the disparities in the settlement system of the Kaliningrad region, the problems of small and semi-mediumsized towns, and the role of such towns in solving the regional development problems of the Kaliningrad region. The author analyses the Lithuanian experience of revitalizing ...
Historical narrative in the work of Kaliningrad poets during Perestroika: the experience of content analysis
... discussions about Stalinism and the Soviet legacy became a focal point of public attention. In the Kaliningrad region, interest in history during this period shifted towards the regional pre-war past, the cultural heritage of the area, the history of its settlement, and the development by Soviet people. Historical themes became one of the leading motifs in the works of Kaliningrad poets. The aim of the article is to identify the “images of the past” that shaped the historical narrative in Kaliningrad ...
Demographic development processes in the history of the Kaliningrad region: national trends and regional specifics
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The ‘Route from the Varangians to the Greeks’: truth or fiction
... East-Baltic Region (Essays on Medieval Archeology and History of the Pskov-Belarusian Dvina), Proceedings of the IIMK RAS], vol. XLIV, St. Petersburg, publishing house «Dmitry Bulanin», 705 p. (in Russ.).
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Immigration policy and integration of migrants in the Kingdom of Denmark at the beginning of the XXI century
... employment, education, and social affairs, Brussels, Migration Policy Institute Europe, 32 p.
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The marine component of human geography studies in Post-Soviet Russia: key trends and development priorities
... and later Russian, economic and social geography contributed to the diversification of geographical science and expanded its scope. The new branch was a product of the rapid growth of the marine economy and the country’s military infrastructure and settlement system starting to gravitate towards the world ocean. This article uses bibliographical and scientometric materials to explore the factors, features and priorities of the development of Russian post-Soviet human geography of the world ocean....
Center-peripheral dimension of innovative security in the Western border regions of Russia (the case of the Rostov region)
... businesses of municipalities in the region with financial and information and communication services, supporting the entrepreneurial infrastructure and infrastructure of e-commerce. The focus is made on identifying differences between urban and rural settlements in terms of involvement in the innovation process. An assessment of the impact of agglomeration and coastal factors on the diffusion of innovations at the inter-municipal level is given: from the agglomeration center to the periphery ...
Migration attractiveness of the coastal zone of Russia’s North-West: local gradients
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Physical aspects of the providing high-quality mobile radio communication to the peripheral settlement of the Kaliningrad region
The paper analyzes the problems associated with the provision of stable mobile radio communication in remote settlements located on the Baltic Sea coast. On the example of the urban - type settlement of Yantarny, the expediency of implementing fifth-generation networks-5G-is justified. On the basis of accounting for the physical processes of radio wave propagation ...
The strongholds of Russian coastal borderlands: economic dynamics amid geopolitical turbulence
In the 21st century, the World Ocean is becoming a key factor in global socio-economic dynamics and a geoeconomic and geopolitical priority of many countries. The Russian Federation, whose economy, infrastructure, and settlement system have been gravitating towards the sea since the late 1990s, is no exception. This article aims to identify and provide a conceptual framework for the phenomenon of Russia’s coastal borderlands and their constituent ‘strongholds’....
Semi-Medium-Sized cities of North-West Russia as drivers for regional development
... Russian Federation; the socio-economic areas formed by the semi-medium-sized cities are clearly represented. As an example, five semi-medium-sized cities of the Kaliningrad region are considered, the role of each city in regional development and regional settlement system is revealed. The author analyses participation of the Kaliningrad semi-mediumsized cities in projects of cross-border cooperation; shows trends of territorial interaction between the semi-medium-sized cities of the region with municipalities ...
The Tourist and Recreation Potential of Historical Cities in North-West Russia
... development and the persisting problem of the national economy’s spatial organisation amidst the absence of a clear-cut regional policy. The authors stress the discrepancy between the distribution of economic activities and the established system of settlement. This is particularly true for many historical cities, whose economic resources have been curtailed. This study provides a rationale for a more efficient use of the tourist and recreational potential to boost the socio-economic development ...
On the Western border of the Zedmar culture
This article presents the Neolithic materials from the settlements on the northeastern coast of the Vistula Lagoon. The settlements were populated by tribes of the Primorskaya Corded Ware Culture. It does not exclude that their predecessors could have lived on the territory in the early and middle Neolithic....
The Origin of the Primorskaya Culture (an analysis of the Pribrezhnoe and Ushakovo-3 dig sites)
Archeological research, which started back in 1990s, made it possible to single out a separate group of settlements on the Vistula Lagoon shore — Waldburg-type monuments. Taking into consideration the distinctive cultural features of the complex, and its early dating, we can safely assume the existence of a protophase in the course of Primorskaya Culture ...
Russian Population Ethnic Structure: Trends and Transformations
... Russian and national regions. Based on the 2010 census data, the article analyses the differences in polyethnicity between the rural and urban population, which are accounted for by the historical background, particularities of regional development, settlement features, and migration processes of the past two decades.
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Human Resources of Post-war Lithuania and Their Role in the Rebuilding of Klaipeda
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The Baltics and Russian North-West: the Core and the Periphery in the 2000s
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On the international cooperation of North-West Russia in the field of innovations in the Baltic
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Opportunities for studying cultural landscapes in the Kaliningrad region
This article focuses on opportunities for studying cultural landscapes in the Kaliningrad region and offers methodology for it. The author outlines types of the information required: genetic types of natural landscapes, spatial settlement and land use features, and the network components of the landscapes environment.
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