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Colonization of the Russian North: a Frozen Frontier
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Klyueva V., Журнал фронтирных исследований 2024 Т. 9 № 4 С. 146–168
The paper focuses on the analysis of survival practices in northern Russian settlements that developed in the 1990s. Most of the northern settlements were in a state of decline: changes in the socio‑demographic composition and population size, transformation of the local economy, degradation of transport infrastructure, deterioration in the quality of life. The reason for the decline ...
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Фаузер В. В., Smirnov A., Экономика региона 2024 Т. 20 № 2 С. 395–411
Over the past three decades, the population of the Russian North has decreased by almost a quarter. Simultaneously, an increasing share of pensioners may negatively affect the availability and quality of labour resources in northern regions. The article examines the dynamics and structure of human resources in 13 regions of the Russian North in the ...
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Smirnov A., Лыткина У. В., Population and Economics 2022 Vol. 6 No. 2 P. 14–34
The article is devoted to the analysis of impact of economic specialization of settlements in the northern mining region on their demographic dynamics. The object of the study is 58 urban and 725 rural settlements of the Komi Republic in 1897-2020. Use of highly detailed data made it possible to identify spatial and sectoral patterns ...
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Фаузер В. В., Smirnov A., Фаузер Г. Н., Север и рынок: формирование экономического порядка 2023 № 1 С. 64–79
Over the past decades, the population of the North of Russia has decreased by more than a quarter. The leading cause is migration outflow, with natural population movement also contributing to the overall population decline. Comparing the data of the last two censuses will make it possible to understand the full depth of the transformational ...
Added: March 18, 2026
Smirnov A., Лыткина У. В., Чупрова Е. А., Экономические и социальные перемены: факты, тенденции, прогноз 2025 Т. 18 № 2 С. 194–211
The North of Russia comprises cities and districts that differ in fertility and reproductive behavior; this fact makes the territory an interesting object for demographic research. The paper considers fertility in the North of Russia at the regional and municipal levels, both in conditional and in real generations. Such an approach helps to identify spatial ...
Added: March 18, 2026
Petrakov P., Molodtsova V., Zamyatina N., В кн.: Геосистемы Северо-Восточной Азии: природные, социальные и хозяйственные системы.: Владивосток: Тихоокеанский институт географии ДВО РАН, 2025.
В статье исследуется концепция фронтира в узком смысле как феномена быстрого освоения природных ресурсов, приводящего к резкому изменению экономической и институциональной среды. Авторы выделяют города фронтира, характеризующиеся значительным ростом населения (10-20% за десятилетие), связанным с развитием новых специализаций, таких как строительство крупных предприятий или инфраструктурных объектов. На примере городов арктической зоны России (Надым, Новый Уренгой, ...
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Aliev R. T., Journal of Frontier Studies 2026 Vol. 11 No. 1 P. 232–251
This article makes use of Frederick Turner’s Frontier Theory to examine how the video games Red Dead Redemption 2 and Valheim portray digital nature and shape identity within virtual spaces. The study places this analysis within a historiographical framework, exploring how developers reimagine the frontier concept, originally linked to American expansion, in digital environment. These virtual spaces address global issues ...
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Гусак А. Д., Dadykina M., Древняя Русь. Вопросы медиевистики 2026 № 1(103) С. 61–83
The article presents the results of the study of the dynamics of salt prices in the Kholmogory and Vologda markets for the period 1624–1635, based on the data of the income and expenditure books of the Spaso-Prilutsky Monastery. The use of quantitative analysis and various graphical models allowed us to study in detail the features ...
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Aliev R. T., Journal of Frontier Studies 2025 Vol. 10 No. 4 P. 78– 89
In contemporary historiography, the question of the ethnogenesis of the Yurt Tatars on the Astrakhan frontier remains particularly relevant. Various scholars and local historians, drawing on extensive archival sources and accounts by travellers and merchants, offer different interpretations of the ethnic origins of the Astrakhan Tatars. This article presents a systematic analysis of the historiography on ...
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Filippov A. F., Новое литературное обозрение 2025 № 3 С. 97–112
The article examines approaches to the concept
“empire” in theoretical sociology. The specificity of
any empire is the size of the space it occupies, but
this space is not enclosed within firm, established
boundaries, as is the territory of the neighboring sta tes. Even if empires are included in systems of interstate
relations, the ideologies of their ruling groups
entail limitless ...
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Bankovskaya S., Новое литературное обозрение 2025 № 3(193) С. 113–125
The article discusses ‘frontier’ as a concept and as a social phenomenon. The definition of ‘frontier’ distinguishes it from ‘border’, highlights its connection with social change (in its spatial dimension), and underlines its dynamic character and, consequently — its uncertainty. The stranger (pioneer, marginal man, frontiersman) is the driver of the frontier as a special ...
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Челябинск: Общественный фонд "Южный Урал", 2025.
Предлагаемый сборник не велик по объёму, но вклю чает разнообразные публикации, которые так или ина че раскрывают разные аспекты связанные с понятием «пограничье». Надо отметить, что в языковой практике это слово уже давно используется весьма широко, в том числе и в практике историков. При этом расшифров ка этого понятия в словарях достаточно лапидарна и при ...
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Khatanzeiskaia E., Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2024 Vol. 94 No. 3 P. S337–S350
The everyday life of a Soviet port city during World War II is considered. Although Arkhangel’sk was never blockaded or occupied, it lost a quarter of its civilian population because of famine and hunger-related diseases. An important historiographical lacuna is filled by the author of this article by analyzing several key factors that led to ...
Added: February 17, 2025
Denis N. Mokrensky, Population and Economics 2022 Vol. 6 No. 1 P. 109–122
The article compares intraregional trends in demographic development of the old-developed territories of the Russian Near North: Arkhangelsk, Vologda, and Kostroma Oblasts. The author identifies trends in the fertility, mortality, and migration in 2011—2019 basing on the statistical indicators characterizing the demographic situation in municipal entities and urban districts of the old-developed areas in these ...
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Zamyatina N., В кн.: Гений места российский городов. Материалы XXII Ежегодной конференции из цикла «Леонтьевские чтения» (1–2 марта 2024 года, Санкт-Петербург).: СПб.: Международный центр социально-экономических исследований «Леонтьевский центр», 2024. Гл. 9 С. 82–93.
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Яровая П. Р., Этнографическое обозрение 2024 № 6 С. 81–96
Drawing on the case of the repair of a peasant house by residents of a dilapidated (and also being restored) Orthodox monastery in the Russian North, the article raises the question of the relationship between theology and economics of economic ethics. The ethnographic analysis of this article focuses on the categories of “labor” and “work” in ...
Added: January 15, 2025