SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE RUSSIAN EUROPEAN NORTH IN THE POST-SOVIET PERIOD

Sergey Kozhevnikov ()
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Sergey Kozhevnikov: Candidate of Sciences in Economics, Leading Researcher, Deputy Head of Department, Vologda Research Center of the RAS, Russia

Regional Science Inquiry, 2020, vol. XII, issue 1, 229-244

Abstract: The article explores the features of the spatial development of the European North of Russia in the post-Soviet period. It is shown that there are processes of polarization and disintegration of the region’s space, which is manifested primarily in the concentration of both the population and economic activity in the “nodal” points, which, as a rule, are large cities, administrative and industrial centers, as well as an increase in the area of the economic periphery. The prospects for the development of resettlement systems are substantiated, and an assessment of the connectivity of the northern territories based on an analysis of the level of development of their transport and logistics infrastructure is given. The necessity of forming several reference points in the economic space of the European North of Russia is substantiated, which, in our opinion, should become a kind of "counterbalance" to the large cities of the central regions of the country and will allow to overcome the negative trends associated with the compression of the region's economic space.

Keywords: spatial development; economic space; space connectivity; urban agglomerations; small and medium-sized cities; transport and logistics infrastructure; European North of Russia. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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