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Moscow Oblast: Territorial Structure of Post-Soviet Transformations
The article, written for the anniversary of G.M. Lappo, is dedicated to Moscow oblast as one of his key regions. The influence of Moscow on the territory of the oblast is considered, including according to cel...
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Historical Experience of the Modernization of Russian Society and Space
The article is based on a broad treatment of modernization as a development based on innovations and unlimited by the New Age. The historical experience of the country has been studied from two aspects: modern...
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Old-Developed Regions of Russia in the Waves of Municipal Reform
This article is devoted to the problems of local self-government in Russia and its relationship with higher authorities. The recent attempt, far from being the first in history, to transform the balance of pow...
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Old-Developed Regions of the Ural Macroregion and Its Large Centers in the Middle
The article first offers a general overview of the place and role of the Russian Urals as a region located at the Eurasian junction. This is one of the leading industrial bases in Russia, relying on natural re...
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Old-Developed Regions of Russia: The Main Evolutionary Outcomes
This is an attempt to generalize the results presented in the series of articles and related to the evolution and the current state of the old-developed regions of Russia on the area from its western borders t...
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Old-Developed Areas under Conditions of Uneven Development
The main common properties, differences, and problems of studying old-developed areas are considered after a brief review of the reasons for and the circumstances of the late Soviet attention to these territor...
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Polarization of Modern Russia’s Socioeconomic Space: Causes, Trends, and Consequences
The purpose of this article is to identify the most important shifts in Russia’s socioeconomic space (with an emphasis on its polarization in the post-Soviet period), their causes, main trends, and consequence...
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Shrinking Urban System of the Largest Country: Research Progress and Unsolved Issues
The article is a review of trends of the last decade in the development and study of the urban system of Russia and its largest agglomerations, Moscow, in particular. The features of Russia’s urban network are...
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Spatially Uneven Development in Russia
The article discusses the main concepts concerning spatial inequality (uneven development, concentration, polarization, fragmentation, shrinking of sociogeographic space) in the Russian and foreign literature ...
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The Largest, Metropolitan, and Global Centers in the World Arena: Matching Networks
The article compares the leadership of the world’s cities in terms of their size, capital status, global economic functions, and spatial structure of their networks. The global network of 210 largest centers i...
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Uneven Development of Old Industrial Regions in the Middle Urals
The article examines the degree of fragmentation and polarization of the socioeconomic space of Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk oblasts in the territory of the Middle Urals from Nizhny Tagil to Chelyabinsk. The stu...
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Unevenness and Structural Diversity of the Economy’s Spatial Development As a Scientific Problem and Russian Reality
The article contains an attempt to analyze the unevenness and diversity in general and in the context of spatial economic development at the level of scientific concepts with examples of countries of the world...
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Urbanization and Seasonal Deurbanization in Modern Russia
The course of urbanization in 20th-century Russia and its specifics during Soviet times and today are considered. To explain the specifics of the urbanization process, the authors put forward five hypotheses, ...
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Schematics of Russia’s averaged regions: Modeling attempted “from below”
An inductive approach is proposed and implemented to model (schematize) an averaged region of contemporary Russia, its main macrozones, and the part of it that approximately corresponds to the Russian Empire i...
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Historic–geographical peculiarities of exploring Russia’s Northern and Arctic territories in the 17th–19th centuries
The historic–geographical dynamics and nature of the exploration of Russia’s Northern and Arctic territories are described beginning from the 17th century. These territories immediately began to play an import...
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Capital cities and state borders: Spatial relationships and shifts
The aim of the article is to verify the opinions of classic Russian geographers on the geographical positions of capital cities and the commonality of their historical destiny. The remoteness of 178 official a...
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Eastern Russia: Space, role, and problems of development
Russia’s division into two, principally its European and Asian, parts looks very traditional. However, this regionalization does not necessarily coincide with division into West and East, which concerns intern...
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Russia between the two capitals: Specifics of territorial changes
The paper analyzes an important feature of Russia, i.e., hystorical presence of two capitals, as well as intercapital space. The ratio of the population and functions of capitals varied for more than two centu...
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“Dacha studies” as the science on second homes in the West and in Russia
This paper contains Russia’s first, to the author’s knowledge, review of research on second homes, particularly those that correspond to the Russian concept of a dacha. This review is certainly incomplete, sin...
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Types of cities in Russia and across the globe
The paper defines the idea of capitalness, describes types of capitals in different countries, and outlines the typical aspects of Russia’s capital. Differences between industrial and postindustrial cities are...
