Changes in the structure and geography of tourist flows during the COVID-19 pandemic
..., in the border regions of Russia’s Northwest Federal District; the growth was also notable in Finland and the Baltic States. Domestic tourist flow compensated, partially or even fully, for the decrease in inbound tourist flow in most regions. The structure of inbound tourism changed markedly during the pandemic, with the share of tourists from the Baltic States growing. The strongest rise was in some regions of southern Finland and more modest in Latvia and Lithuania.
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Tourism ...
The economy of Russian Baltic regions: development level and dynamics, structure and international trade partners
... Baltic macro-region comprising Russia and eight EU countries (Germany, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) in the context of the ongoing geopolitical and geo-economic changes. The article aims to assess the dynamics, level, structure and pace of economic development of three Russian regions located on the Baltic Sea (St. Petersburg, Leningrad and Kaliningrad regions) and analyse the intensity of their trade relations with countries of the macro-region. Russian Baltic regions ...
The border as a barrier and an incentive for the structural economic transformation of the Kaliningrad exclave
This paper aims to study how geopolitical shifts affect regional economies and their structures. Border functions and regimes act as tools for the economy and society to adapt to the redistribution of political influence, movements of people, goods, capital and information between integration associations, individual countries and their ...
The modern economy of Russia’s Baltic regions in the municipal context
... Kaliningrad region. As for the Leningrad region, the situation is more complex since a more ‘acute’ topic of the development of the St. Petersburg agglomeration (which includes only part of the Leningrad region) overshadows the analysis of the spatial structure of the entire region’s economy and the differences across its municipalities. This covers the assessment of the scale of commuting within the agglomeration [6], the differentiation of St. Petersburg’s outskirts [7], [8], the agglomeration’s ...
Spatial differentiation of rural territories in the Kaliningrad region: implications for socio-economic policies
... residents. Overall, the tendency of population concentration within the immediate suburban zone of Kaliningrad remains despite the noted differences in population change in 2023 compared to 2010—2023.
The municipalities have different age and gender structures in terms of both natural and migration movements (Table 1). The disparities observed in the rural areas closely mirror the variations in the characteristics of natural and migratory population movements. There are dissimilarities between districts ...
Narrative in structure of genre: A.I. Kuprin’s “Four beggars” ..... 15 Babenko N.G., Koreshkova E.K. Functional analysis of the linguistic reflection in Evgeny Vodolazkin’s “Justification of the Island”
... life of an individual and society. Epic narrative genres are characterized by a consistent presentation of the series of events. The purpose of the article is to identify the features of various narratives in a work that reveals the syncretism of genre structures. The research methodology includes comparative and historical-genetic methods, as well as philological interpretation. A. I. Kuprin’s “Four beggars” is defined by the author as a legend, though this is not the only genre structure where ...
The Denominational Space of Modern Sweden: Christianity
... The relevance of this work lies in the fact that Christianity is the most popular religion in Sweden, given that it is religion that has a profound effect on worldview in a society. The article describes the transformation of territorial and canonical structure of Christian denominations in Sweden. It is argued that, despite secularisation of Swedish society, religion remains a key component in both host and immigrant cultures, which requires a study of the denominational space. Special attention is ...
International heritage in the memorial landscape of the Kaliningrad region
This article aims to analyse the structure of sites in the Kaliningrad region commemorating events, phenomena or figures of international history, as well as to reveal their symbolic significance. The study uses empirical data on the origin, time of construction and purpose of the monuments,...
Structural changes in the economy of the Russian North-West regions: institutional factor
Balancing out uneven regional development and territorial disparities is an urgent task. Solving it requires considering the geo-economic features of various parts of Russia’s spatially structured territory. This study aims to describe trends in the economic space transformation and structural changes in the economies of the North-Western Federal District. Exploring the economic space transformation, the paper draws on economic theory ...
Conceptual structure of the binary axiological opposition truth — lie
... the concepts they consist of have always been a major area of interest in science. The development of cognitive linguistics has opened new perspectives for the study of axiological events, categories and concepts within them. This article explores the structure of the axiological binary opposition truth-lie, based on the material of the English language. In English, the verbalised concept truth encodes information about both objective truth as well as its subjective perception and re-translation. A ...
Impact of external migration on changes in the Swedish religious landscape
For most of its history, Sweden has been a country dominated by the Lutheran Church, having the status of the official state religion. Starting in mid-to-late 20th century, mass immigration to Europe had a considerable impact on the confessional structure of Sweden’s population. The growing number of refugees from the Balkan Peninsula, the Middle East, and Africa has turned Sweden into a multi-religious state. Sweden has become one of the leaders among the EU countries as far as the growth ...
‘What can be described can happen too…’: describing text semantics as a model structure of transworld relationships
... the multidimensional semantic organization of a text, particularly, I focus on the possibility of using the apparatus of modal semantics to identify the relationship between sentential complexes. To those ends, I employ the concepts of model, model structure, and centred world. The latter is a system of functions that correlate language expressions, the language expressions of a text, states of affairs (possible worlds) described by language expressions, and the contexts in which a text occurs. ...
The potential of structural changes in the economy of the Kaliningrad region
The issue of structural policy in the Kaliningrad region remains pressing. Russia’s commitment to modernisation based on innovative development, overcoming the dependence on raw materials, and the current crisis phenomena require a transformation of the structure ...
Migration and the Transformation of Multiethnic Population Structure in the Kaliningrad Region of the Post-Soviet Era
This paper analyses the migration processes and their influence on the transformation of multiethnic population structure in the Kaliningrad region. The author uses official statistics (current statistics and census data), as well as interviews with the representatives of ethnic cultural associations as information sources. Special attention is paid to the migration ...
Knowledge and innovation dynamics of the Northwest Russia under geopolitical changes
... study also finds that there is a positive correlation between the volume of innovative products and quantitative factors in the functioning of subsystems involved in knowledge generation and innovation. Finally, the study examines the geography and structure of the international research network that the regions of Northwest Russia had formed by 2022. It shows that the geopolitical transformation requires a significant part of cooperation ties with unfriendly countries to be restructured.
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Small towns of Latvia: disparities in regional and urban development
... municipalities were brought under one local government. The questionable consequences of the reform have been mentioned by experts, members of local government councils and the president of Latvia. The heavy dependence of regional towns on European structural and investment funds, as well as on other international and domestic sources of finance, complicates their development.
Yet, reasonable autonomy of local authorities, community organisations, political groups and individual citizens, the established ...
Territorial structure of the denominational space of the South-East Baltic
... Dominant in the Baltic region, these religious confessions define the cultural landscape of the area. At the same time, they have an indirect effect on socio-economic development. In this study, we aim to identify the main components of the territorial structure and the formation and transformation factors of the denominational space in the South-East Baltic. The complexity of the denominational structure of the local population stems from the centuries-long position of this region as a political buffer ...
Development factors and regularities of the territorial structure of nature management
The Kaliningrad and Pskov regions serve as good examples for comparison of the main trends and patterns of the territorial agricultural structure as the most dynamic type of nature management. The territorial structure of agriculture in the regions and the factors of its evolution are considered on the example of two historical periods (1975—80 and 2016—17). In the Pskov region, the ...
Verb in the lexical structure of hagiographic text: syntagmatic aspect
Using a comprehensive approach to the analysis of linguistic facts, a fragment of the lexical structure of hagiographic text formed by verbal units is characterized. The material for the study consists of hagiographic lives of saints and martyrs from the Synodal edition, which are part of the May cycle of the Menaion Reader. The authors focus ...
Spatial structure and development of settlements in the Saint Petersburg agglomeration
This article explores the spatial structure and development of settlements comprising the Saint Petersburg agglomeration. Previous studies and database sources, which were never used before (the Federal Tax Service [FTS] database and SPARK-Interfax), are analysed to reveal factors in ...
Lecture at Tartu State University, March 13, 1981
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Lotman, Yu. M., 1981а. Semiotics of culture and the concept of text.
Trudy po znakovym sistemam. 12: Struktura i semiotika khudozhestvennogo teksta (Uchenye zapiski Tartuskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Vyp. 515)
[Sign Systems Studies. 12: Structure and semiotics of a literary text (Scientific letters of The University of Tartu. Issue 515)], pp. 3—7 (in Russ.).
Lotman, Yu. M., 1981б. Brain — text — culture — artificial intelligence.
Semiotika i informatika
[Semiotics and Informatics],...
Development of a Method of Optimal Design of Structure and Parameters of Technical Means of Information Protection
Based on the specific features of technical means of information protection as a special class of complex systems, it is proposed the problem of synthesis of structure of means of protection to decide as a multicriterion optimization problem taking into account the influence of structure and performance on selected quality indicators.
1. Цвиркун А. Д. Основы синтеза структуры ...
The text in the context of the Tartu Semiotic School: problems and prospects
... of sentences. In: B. Gasparov, ed. Trudy po russkoi i slavyanskoi filologii XXIII. Seriya lingvisticheskaya [Proceedings of Russian and Slavic Philology XXIII. A series of linguistic.]. Tartu: TGU. pp. 3—29 (in Russ.).
Gasparov, B. M., 1975b. The structure of the formal connection of sentences in modern Russian. In: B. Gasparov, ed. Trudy po russkoi i slavyanskoi filologii XXIII. Seriya lingvisticheskaya [Proceedings of Russian and Slavic Philology XXIII. A series of linguistic.]. Tartu: TGU....
Conceptual metonymy of the structure of the utterance
The author analyses examples from the English language and, based on their analysis, investigates the mechanism of conceptual metonymy reflected in the syntactic structure of the utterance. Conceptual metonymy is considered as a factor determining the structure of the utterance describing a fragment of reality. The author explores models of metonymic transfers, in which spatial relations act as the source domain,...
Integrated approach to the event frame analysis
The author analyses different approaches to the conceptualization of events in cognitive science, describes the types of events and their structure. Special attention is given to the integration of the frame analysis tools and corpora data and the opportunities this combination presents for analyzing the process of event conceptualization. The author explores the structure of an event frame ...
Anagrammatic structures in the semiotic aspect
This article considers the functional features and deep cognitive foundations of ana¬grammatic structures in verbal texts. The traditional perspective on the phenomenon is defined as a general sign-based one: anagrammatic structures are examined in music and mathematics. It is concluded that anagrams are special cognitive universals; anagrammatic ...
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 ...
The functional significance of modal evaluative component in the concept structure: The case of M. Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita
This article analyses connections between modality and concept. The au-thor explains the way modal meanings are connected to concepts, stresses the functional value of modal meanings for concept structure, and considers the structure of concept, its nuclear, and interpretation field. The concept of «duty» in the context of a literary text is used to prove the modal background of the concept.
1. Арутюнова Н. Д. Дискурс // ...
The lexical structure of the Life of St. Martyr Irina (according to the Synodal version)
... Житие и страдание святой славной великомученицы Ирины // Жития Святых. Минея Четья. Месяц май / 8-е синодальное изд. М., 1998.
Uvarova I.
hagiography, lexical structure of text, Russian verb, semantic structure of word, concept structure of word form, semantic transformations
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Analysis of quasiperiodic structure of a flat bulk layer in a gravitational field
The results numeral analysis structure of flat vertical lager that is formed triangle prism are presented. Complex analyses had unequivocally revealed presence of quasiperiodic structure in distribution particle. Is being offered a hypothesis about the nature of this reveal.
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The structure of flat layer of isosceles triangles
The article presents the results of research on the structure of a flat vertical layer from isosceles triangles in gravity field. It also describes
porosity distribution in a layer and the wave structure of a bulk layer.
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Клеман М., Лаврентович О.
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Основы физики ...
Cytogenetic Structure of Chironomus balatonicus Devai et al. Population in the Vistula Lagoon of the Baltic Sea
The analysis of Ch. balatonicus population cytogenetic structure shows that all seven chromosomal arms are polymorphous, the most polymorhous one is arm D, which was presented by four chromosome band sequences. Standard sequences as well as their zygotic and genome combinations prevail in the population. ...
The Evolution of Settlement Areas of Ingrian Finns in Northwest Russia in the Second Half of the 20th Century
... the North West region and Karelia], Leningrad, 117 p.
7. Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2002 goda [Results of the National Population Census 2002], in 14 volumes, T. 4, Vol. 1 Nacional'nyj sostav i vladenie jazykami, grazhdanstvo [National structure and language skills, citizenship], 2004, Moscow, 945 p.
8. Itogi Vsesojuznoj perepisi naselenija 1989 goda [Results of the All-Union population census of 1989]. Vol III. Nacional'nyj sostav naselenija Karel'skoj ASSR [The ethnic composition ...
The political elite recruitment in the Baltic: the role of the ethnic factor
... had to tackle the problem of civil society formation and the development of a political regime based on democratic procedures. In these countries the processes of elite recruitment were largely affected by the factor of ethic homogeneity of the social structure. This article analyses the process of elite group formation in the Baltics through the lens of the ethnic factor. By applying the ethnopolitical approach, the author concludes that the de facto barriers to non-titular population groups entering ...
The structure of political elite networks in the Republic of Poland in 1993—2013
To identify the structure of network ties within Polish political elites; to study the features of network ties formation and the impact that both primary and labour socialisation periods and diaspora characteristics have on this process; to describe the structural features ...
International cross-border migration in the South-East Baltic: factors, structure, consequences
This article presents the results of an integrated research encompassing both the study of migration processes in the South-East Baltic (volume, structure, directions) and the analysis of factors affecting migration mobility of the population as well as the assessment of migration influence on the socioeconomic development of three border territories.
1. V buduwem zhiteljam Litvy pridetsja rabotat' ...
Study of the physical and geographical conditions of the territory of the Kemerovo region — Kuzbass for the purpose of reclamation works
The long geological history of the region, changes in marine and terrestrial deposits, and magmatic activity have determined the modern geological and geomorphological structure of the Kemerovo Region — Kuzbass, as well as the distribution of mineral resources. The aim of the study was to investigate the physico-geographical conditions of the Kemerovo Region — Kuzbass to carry out reclamation work. The main deposits ...
Soil resources and soil cover structure Kemerovo region — Kuzbass
... stage, where only young soil-like bodies, embryosols, are found. The soils of the Kemerovo Region, Kuzbass, are identified on the following morphological features: the thickness of the humus horizon is up to 30 cm, a clearly expressed crumbly-granular structure, heavy loamy; the transitional horizon is unevenly colored, with signs of gleying, heavy loamy; the presence of a small amount of sandy fractions throughout the profile; soil-forming rock; stratified sandy loam or loam.
Osintseva M.A....
Priorities for the development of manufacturing industries in the Kaliningrad region
... country through the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea.
In the region, sanctions have severely affected the development of all manufacturing companies relying on raw materials and/or semi-finished products imported from unfriendly countries. The operating structure of these businesses, which explains their heavy dependence on exports and imports, calls for a thorough restructuring, as is the case with international trade ties. A viable solution is stimulating productions that rely on Russian raw materials ...
Economic development of Russia’s north-western regions and migration to the St. Petersburg agglomeration
... and Kaliningrad Regions). The Nenets Autonomous Okrug was studied as part of the Arkhangelsk Region.
The change in labour productivity in the NWFD over the study period was broken down into the contributions of the four sectors (first summand) and the structural changes (second summand):
, (1)
where y(t) is labour productivity; Δy(t) is the increase in labour productivity; L(t) is the number of the employed; i is the sector; t is the year. Labour productivity was derived from the ratio between the ...