Small towns of Latvia: disparities in regional and urban development
... sociological study conducted by the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in collaboration with Daugavpils University (Latvia) in 2020—2021. The study aimed to identify the reasons for the disparity in the development of small towns in Latvia. A comprehensive approach was taken to integrate the results of territorial, spatial and socio-economic analyses. By employing the methodology of indexing and ranking large-scale empirical data characterising the development of all small ...
International heritage in the memorial landscape of the Kaliningrad region
... sophisticated prose and anti-fascist; poets Frieda Jung (1865—1929) and Johanna Ambrosius (1854—1939).
Sovetsk (formerly Tilsit) boasts plaques honouring the German early 19th-century poet Max von Schenkendorf (1783—1817), who was born and grew up in the town, and Johannes Bobrowski (1917—1965). A native of Tilsit, Bobrowski was called up into the Wehrmacht in 1939 and fought in the USSR. From 1945 to 1945, he was imprisoned by the Soviet Union, where he worked in the Donbas coal mines and on the reconstruction ...
Monotowns: A New Take on the Old Problem
... considering key relations affecting the implementation of each alternative.
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2. Animitsa, Е. G. Medvedeva, I. A., Sukhih, V. A. 2003, Malye i srednie goroda: nauchno-teoreticheskie aspekty issledovanija [Small and medium-sized ...
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 small towns. The article outlines the ways to apply this experience to the Kaliningrad ...
Sustainable tourism as an alternative development path for coastal towns: The case of the Kaliningrad region
The authors present a function-based typology of towns located on the coast of the Kaliningrad/Vistula Lagoon. It is shown that the recreational function of these towns is either poorly developed or absent, which complicates the sustainable development of coastal territories. Grade-based assessment ...
Comparative analysis of the territorial support frame of settlement in coastal areas: the case of St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad regions
... an inflow of resources for the development of the whole settlement system. Moreover, it is traditionally perceived as the site where conditions emerge for social development at an entirely new level [16]. An efficiently organised network of cities, towns and settlements comprising an agglomeration can generate economic profits that would not be made otherwise. Yet, the periphery is losing economic and demographic opportunities, and these losses cannot be compensated for within either a command or ...
The spread of the COVID-19 infection in Russia’s Baltic macro-region: internal differences
... For the first time in recent history, the country was confronted with a global phenomenon affecting all aspects of life and thus all sectors of the economy. Yet, the reaction of space and society to the pandemic varied from region to region and from town to town.
Russian economic geographers responded to the challenge of the pandemic with copious research publications. Some works explore the course of the pandemic in selected territories; others look at how the virus spread across Russian regions ...
Modern features of the development of a comfortable urban space in small towns of the Kaliningrad region
Given the issue of balanced socio-economic development of the entire territory of the Kaliningrad region, an important task is to improve the quality of life in small towns in the region, as they serve as supporting elements for the regional settlement frame. Attracting federal and extrabudgetary funds could be seen as an effective tool in the context of a local budget deficit. To date, improving the quality of ...
Strategic planning of small towns development in the Kaliningrad region
The article examines some geographical features of strategic planning of small cities in the Kaliningrad region. The article reveals institutional and secondary measures for perfection of strategy and improvements of investment attractiveness of small towns in the Kaliningrad region.
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Актуальные
проблемы развития полусредних городов Калининградской области / под ред. Г.
М. Федорова. Калининград: Изд-во ...
The border as a barrier and an incentive for the structural economic transformation of the Kaliningrad exclave
... neighbouring countries, whilst increasingly expensive local resorts became overcrowded with tourists from mainland Russia [35]. As a result, both the local residents and, later, tourists shifted their focus to the eastern part of the region, visiting towns like Gusev, Chernyakhovsk, and Zheleznodorozhny.
This growing interest paralleled the development programme for the east of the region, under which many towns boasting a rich cultural heritage are being renovated. The regional authorities managed ...
Spatial differentiation of rural territories in the Kaliningrad region: implications for socio-economic policies
... exceeded natural population losses, resulting in an increase in the number of residents. However, the situation worsened in the Gusev municipality, which, largely due to the success of the General Satellite technopolis, had shown population growth in the town itself and only a slight decrease in rural areas (Fig. 5).
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Natural increase and net migration rate in the municipalities of the Kaliningrad region in 2022, per 1000 population
Compiled based on: Operational Demographic Indicators of the Kaliningrad ...
The impact of the food embargo on consumer preferences and cross-border practices in the Kaliningrad region
... purchase goods from Poland and Lithuania in the Kaliningrad region (according to 2012 data)
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Description
Example
Reach (number of social
media followers as of
November 8, 2022)
As part of tourist trips
Special shopping tour. Poland: to nearby towns and cities within the LBT area (for example, Gdansk, Branjovo, Elblag, Gdynia, Bartoszyce, Olsztyn). Lithuania: Kaunas, Vilnius, Klaipeda, Trakai. Usually lasts 1—2 days, with a visit to grocery stores: “Auchan”, Lidl, “Biedronka”in Poland,...
Population change and the settlement system transformation in Poland, as revealed by the 2021 census
... “spreading” to its surrounding gminas and counties, but the evidence of the population outflow from the economically growing area.
In this case, Legnica serves as an example, but similar geodemographic changes can be observed in other cities and towns in the Lower Silesian and Opole voivodeships. It seems that a portion of the population leaving cities and towns similar to Legnica in Lower Silesia chooses to leave the region, and sometimes even Poland, while another portion settles in the principal ...
Cross-border tourist mobility as seen by residents of the Karelian borderlands: COVID-19 restrictions
... development of the borderlands, even if some visitors spend no more than several hours in the area [1].
A study co-authored by researchers from Poland, Finland and Russia revealed that the primary destination for Russian tourist shoppers is the border towns of Finland; they rarely visit any other parts of the neighbouring state. Usually, the visitors limit their travel to major supermarkets and shopping malls located in suburbs or at the border, timing their trips to coincide with sales and price reductions ...
Transport connectivity as a factor in overcoming challenges of the periphery: the case of rural areas in the Kaliningrad region
Quality of life in rural areas is increasingly dependent on transport links to nearest towns and regional centres. In this article, we examine transport connectivity between villages and towns in the Kaliningrad region. We use the travel time access parameter to investigate the influence of transport connectivity on the population size ...
National urban policy in Russia and the European experience
... and congruence with regional policy. The principal NUP document in Russia is the Spatial Development Strategy. However, it overlooks some issues essential for the development of the city system: the federal authorities support only selected types of towns, such as single-industry municipalities, and the NUP is not comprehensive as it pays little attention to the economic dimension. A feeble information framework and largely powerless municipal authorities impede further development of the NUP. A ...
Königsberger Kant-Forschung: Allgemeine Aufgaben und Popularisierung
The first part of the article describes general development of Kant studies in Königsberg as a local movement (not a school) with some special traits, which has significantly contributed to the culture of the town. Core activities were formed by the Society of Kant’s Friends, as well as by archival studies, i. e. collecting, annotating and publishing Kant’s manuscripts, correspondence, and lecture notes. In view of primary and secondary sources we would ...
The Tourist and Recreation Potential of Historical Cities in North-West Russia
... suggest that strategic areas of tourism and recreation development in Russia’s historical cities should be identified depending on city type, development conditions and other relevant factors.
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Russia’s North-West Borders: Tourism Resource Potential
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L. woodpegion in the towns of the Kaliningrad region
This article describes the condition of woodpigeon populations in 25 towns and large villages of the Kaliningrad region. The author focuses on the possible reasons for significant differences in the population density of woodpigeon in urban areas and pays attention to the origin of urban populations.
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The peculiarities of psychological support to breast cancer survivors in small towns
This article analyses the peculiarities of psychological support to breast cancer survivors residing in small towns. The authors consider the dynamics of emotional state in the course of implementing a dedicated programme of intensive psychological support in rehabilitation.
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Некоторые психологические проблемы ...
Twin cities: a new form of cross-border cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region?
... form of cross-border cooperation in the Baltic region. This phenomenon emerged as a result of a global tendency towards more active involvement of municipal units in international cooperation, on the one hand, and aspirations of frontier cities and towns in the Baltic region to solve common problems together, on the other hand. This work is based on a comparative analysis method and a case study methodology. The authors consider four examples (city pairs): Tornio — Haparanda, Valga — Valka, ...
The modern economy of Russia’s Baltic regions in the municipal context
... macroregions (usually federal districts). The studies of the differences among smaller territorial units are much less common, and they focus mainly on demographic issues or the development of certain types of territories: agglomerations, single-industry towns, and rural areas.
The reasons are understandable: it is not only the laboriousness of working with municipalities but also,<1> to an even greater extent, the significant gap in regional and municipal statistical data that researchers are well ...
The geopolitical effect of the maritime factor on the spatial development of post-Soviet Russia: the Baltic case
... coastalisation of the population and settlements is a fundamental characteristic of the land-sea organisation of society, which applies to post-Soviet Russia as well (see [7], [16], [36], [37]). Notably, as census data suggest, the population of 74 Russian towns (including those in Crimea) situated in coastal areas or the mouths of major navigable rivers has increased by 10.5 % since 1989. In contrast, the overall urban population in the country has remained nearly constant, at 99.9 % of the 1989 census ...
Geography of the mobile internet in the border and interior regions of Russia
... population with higher education and the share of online shoppers in the total regional population.
A high degree of geographical heterogeneity persists across the Russian internet space [25], [26]. The digital divide between urban and rural areas, towns and large cities is still significant [27], [28]. The article by Shestak [29] shows that the larger the city’s population, the more developed its internet services are. In line with global trends, we can observe a widening structural disparity ...
Modern trends in paradiplomacy: a case of Russian-Finnish regional cooperation
... [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 renamed Imatra, while the part that was in the Soviet ...
Depopulation of coastal rural Lithuania: do regional parks stabilise the situation?
... of national and local statistics, institutional documents, and structured interviews revealed that the conservation regime applied in regional parks did not necessarily encourage local people to stay or newcomers to arrive. Proximity to the sea and towns with developed social infrastructure remains a priority when looking for a residence in the countryside.
Verkulevičiūtė-Kriukienė D., Bučienė A., Čepienė E.
depopulation, disappeared villages, rural population, regional parks, ...
Migration distances in Russia: a demographic profile of migrants
... their new place of residence tended to cover greater distances compared to those registered only temporarily. The shortest relocation distances were associated with the age of 16, which could be attributed to prospective students moving to the nearest town where a vocational school is located.
State of research
Ernst Ravenstein claimed that most migrants move short distances, and migratory flows dwindle as the distance from the point of departure grows [1, p. 198]. His conclusion has been corroborated ...
Conceptualizing emotions through discourse: a pragmatic view on the reader's interest
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Territorial structure of inbound and domestic tourism in the Baltic States
... boast historical cities (Tartu in South Estonia) or major seaside and health resort (Druskininkai in Alytus County, Klaipėda in Klaipėda County, Jūrmala and Ķemeri in Pierīga); others have both. West Estonia, for example, is home to the resort town of Pärnu and the Kuressaare Castle on the island of Saaremaa, a UNESCO World Heritage contender. In Kaunas County, there are Kaunas, the former capital of Lithuania, and the health resort Birštonas.
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The centre-periphery structure of tourism ...
The two-party tendency in Poland’s political system: manifestations, causes and prospects
... share reduced to 3 %; among PiS supporters, it dropped from 37 to 6 % [12, p. 493].
Polish political journalism has responded to the division with stereotyped images of PiS and PO partisans. The supporters of the former — senior residents of smaller towns, most of them ardent Catholics with secondary education and a below-average income — are commonly called ‘mohair berets’. The latter’s voters — cosmopolitan youngsters from big cities, having a good education, a large income and a high ...
The sea factor in the federal regulation of Russia’s spatial development: post-Soviet experience and current priorities
...
2009—2013
Stronger federal support for regional development in response to the 2008—2009 crisis; growing importance of Far Eastern policy (Ministry for the Development of the Far East established in 2012; new economic zones; support for company towns)
A focus on the geostrategic import of coastal areas and territorial waters, the development of the Northern Sea Route; technological re-equipment of the maritime economy; the development of the Arctic in the framework of the maritime economy (the ...
Ekaterinburg — Sverdlovsk — Ekaterinburg: the city image in the dynamics of a toponymic text
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. The Trotskyists in East Prussia: “history in shards”
... of whom (e. g. Gustav Plep and Oskar Seipold) were active not only regionally, but also at the all-German level. The author describes the political activities of the leftist opposition (holding discussion evenings, sending circular letters to small towns in East Prussia, distributing leaflets at workers’ gatherings, etc.), and shows how local Trotskyists were influenced by conflicts between the leaders of the United Left Opposition - Roman Well, Anton Grylewicz, Kurt Landau and Oskar Seipold. ...
Lifestyles of Kaliningrad youth
... Zarubina, E. V., Kruzhkova, T. I., Fateeva, N. B. 2019, Environmental behavior as a lifestyle, Obrazovanie i pravo [Education and Law], № 2, p. 281— 286 (in Russ.).
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The image of Kaliningrad in the perception of university students
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The ‘Route from the Varangians to the Greeks’: truth or fiction
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Specifics of the economic development of the southeast of the Kaliningrad region
The development of territories at the micro level is a topical research issue due to emerging trends in the development of small towns and districts. So, on the territory of the Kaliningrad region, several micro-districts are distinguished (according to socio-economic zoning), including the territory of the south-east, i. e., Gusev, Nesterov, Ozersk and Chernyakhovsk municipalities....
Toil, Passion, Serendipity, Money, and Marketing: a Fresh Look at Agents of Translation
... first on Benjamin Moser, the translator and editor of the Brazilian novelist, Clarice Lispector, and the second on Liz Calder, former owner of the Bloomsbury Press, and the originator of FLIP, the annual literary festival held in the historic coastal town of Paraty, in the state of Rio de Janeiro.
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Linear algorithm for restoring the geological structure of the designed well for the user's access to groundwater resources
... other parameters of real boreholes. The calculation is based on the use of data on the boreholes closest to a given user request point. The proposed algorithm can facilitate the design of water supply for small enterprises and personal users of small towns and villages in the region at the expense of groundwater resources.
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The effect of geographical position and employment fluctuations on rural settlement trends
... Narodnoe khozyaistvo Kaliningradskoi oblasti: problemy i puti razvitiya [National Economy of the Kaliningrad Region: Problems and Ways of Development], Kaliningrad, p. 100—108 (in Russ.).
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Typology of small towns in the western borderland regions of Russia
Recognizing the leading role of large urban agglomerations in the development of any region, it should be noted that small towns perform their equally important function as reference points in the regional framework of the settlement system. In strategic regions, like the ones of the Western borderland, small towns, inter alia, become significant for ensuring national ...
Impact of remigration on the worksphere under Covid-19: the case of Lithuania
... Grabowska, I. 2019, Social Remittances and Social Change in Central and Eastern Europe: Embedding Migration in the Study of Society, Central and Eastern European Migration Review, Vol. 8, no. 1, p. 33—50.
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Rural areas of russia’s north-west borderland: problems and development paths
This article focuses on the rural areas of Russia’s North-West borderlands, particularly, the municipal districts and towns that are closest to the national border. The study aims to identify problems in the development of these territories and provide solutions to them. The methodological framework employed is the neo-endogenous approach, which suggests the maximal ...
Trends in population change and the sustainable socio-economic development of cities in North-West Russia
... unique example of a model region. It accounts for 10 % of the country’s total area and 9.5 % of its population. This article aims to trace the patterns of city distribution across the region, to assess the conditions of differently populated cities and towns, and to identify sustainability trends in their socio-economic development. Population change is a reliable indicator of the competitiveness of a city. As a rule, a growing city performs well economically and has a favourable investment climate ...
Economic and demographic distinctions between municipal districts of the Kaliningrad region
... region, where the city of Kaliningrad is located. In the east, where the level of employment is lower and the problem of unemployment is more complicated, there is a significant migration outflow of the population to Kaliningrad and its satellite towns. The regional programme Vostok is being developed to tackle the problem of the eastern municipalities. It offers additional benefits to investors compared with the mechanism of the Special Economic Zone. However, less developed social infrastructure,...
Application of the mathematical modelling and simulation methods to the study of didactic systems
Didactic systems relate to poorly structured and poorly formalizable objects that function under conditions of uncertainty and lack of information about the state of the student, the teaching methods used, etc. The article considers the application of mathematical and computer modeling methods for the study of didactic systems and various approaches to the construction of mathematical and computer models of the student. The following models are discussed: linear and nonlinear learning models;...
Der Einfluss Kants auf das philosophische Denken in Russland
... devoted to the influence of Kant’s personality and philosophical ideas on the Russian thought. Kant considered as the great philosopher, who was the bright spokes of German spirit, the creative genius and genius loci of Königsberg, which has been the town of dramatic historical fate.
1. Абрамов А. И. Кант в русской духовно-академической философии // Абрамов А. И. Сборник научных трудов по истории русской ...
History of creation, modern ecological condition, landscape structure of M. Ashmann park in Kaliningrad
The sharp reduction of green zones in Kaliningrad, caused by the rapid modern construction and the increase in the motor vehicles, leads to adverse environmental conditions. Reconstruction and conservation of parks is a priority task for creating an ecological framework of urban areas. The M. Ashman’s landscape park is located in densely populated new districts of Selma and Severnaya Gora and is actively used by the townspeople for recreation. However, its environmental conditions do not meet the...