Geographical approach to the classification of local rural areas (on the example of the Torzhok district in the Tver Region)

Географический подход к классификации локальных сельских территорий (на примере Торжокского района Тверской области)

Smirnova, Alexandra (Смирнова, Александра) (), Smirnov, Ilya (Смирнов, Илья) () and Tkachenko, Alexander (Ткаченко, Александр) ()
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Smirnova, Alexandra (Смирнова, Александра): Tver State University
Smirnov, Ilya (Смирнов, Илья): Tver State University
Tkachenko, Alexander (Ткаченко, Александр): Tver State University

Russian Peasant Studies, 2023, vol. 8, 85-103

Abstract: The article continues the series of works on the geographical diversity of rural areas. The previous article (Tkachenko et al., 2021) presented a classification of rural districts in the Tver Region. This article aims at providing a classification of rural areas that are more fractional than municipal districts and at assessing the compliance (consistency) of classifications for the adjacent territorial levels. The Torzhok district was chosen as a main case for it represents the most prosperous type of districts in the Tver Region — agricultural, with a developed network of rural settlements. Based on the same characteristics as in the previous study, 22 local rural areas were considered as rural municipalities until 2017. The resulting classification includes 11 types, 6 of which have only one representative each. The grouping by the degree of compliance with the features of the Torzhok district showed that the general portrait of the district depends on a small number of local areas that form its spatial-semantic core: only 3 local rural areas located around the district center have the same characteristics. On the periphery, there are territories either with a low degree of correspondence or without any similar characteristics. The comparison of classifications proved the role of generalization in the study of spatial differences in rural areas.

Keywords: countryside; local rural areas; frame structure; territorial functions; rural settlement; recreational potential; Tver Region; Torzhok district (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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