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Geoarchaeology at Dzhankent: Urbanization and state formation on the Northern Silk Road
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Report on the methods (geophysics, geomorphology, palaeobotany, micromycology) used in the fieldwork in the early medieval town of Dzhankent (Kazakhstan)
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Pokrovsky N., Shilova V. A., Buchatskii A., Вестник Института социологии 2026 Т. 17 № 1 С. 156–182
This article provides a theoretical justification for the concept of post-agrarianism as a promising analytical framework for analyzing the current state and development potential of rural territories in Central Russia. The authors argue that the Russian countryside is undergoing a profound, multifaceted transformation involving the replacement of traditional labor-intensive agriculture with high-tech agricultural holdings, the ...
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Molodtsova V., Mokrensky D., Artsybasheva K. et al., Городские исследования и практики 2026 Т. 11 № 1 С. 10–29
In the global trend towards urbanization, small towns play an essential role in ensuring balanced spatial development, serving as a link between rural and highly urbanized areas. The BRICS countries, comprising almost half of the world’s population and a significant portion of global GDP, have demonstrated a variety of approaches to working with small towns. ...
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Kurbanova F., Konstantinov E. A., Lebedeva M. P. et al., Catena 2025 Vol. 255 Article 109011
The Kostenki-Borshevo archaeological complex, located on the right bank of the Don Valley, is the largest cluster of Upper Paleolithic sites in Eastern Europe. Despite extensive research, many paleoecological issues related to these sites remain unresolved, particularly those concerning the history of their surface and pedogenic processes. In this study, we focus on the topography ...
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Glushkov A., В кн.: Великая Победа. Пермские страницы. Материалы всероссийской научно-практической конференции (Пермь, 1 октября 2025 г.).: Пермский национальный исследовательский политехнический университет, 2025.
The paper focuses on the housing construction and landscaping activities in Perm during the Great Patriotic War. Facing new challenges due to wartime conditions and evacuation, municipal authorities tried to address the everyday problems of the population in a variety of ways. These included the use of new construction materials and engaging the public in ...
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Kirill Ilnitskiy, P.: UNESCO, 2016.
Culture: Urban Future; Global Report on Culture for Sustainable Urban Development / ed. F. Bandarin. Paris: UNESCO, 2016. 303 p. ISBN 978-92-3-100170-3.
Глобальный доклад ЮНЕСКО представляет собой первое комплексное международное исследование роли культуры в устойчивом городском развитии, подготовленное к Конференции ООН Хабитат III и в контексте реализации Цели устойчивого развития № 11. Доклад основан на масштабном ...
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Grigoriev A., Gallyamova A., Grigoryev D. et al., Population and Economics 2026 Vol. 10 No. 1 P. 74–92
Grounded in the ecocultural framework, this study explores the historical and contemporary predictors of regional cultural differences in individualism-collectivism (IND-COL) across Russia, focusing on private land ownership in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and current employment in agriculture. The analysis reveals that regions with a higher prevalence of private land ownership in 1877 ...
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Tabolin V., Местное право 2025 № 5 С. 21–28
The article examines the issues of scientific content and legal-urbanology modeling of rural-urban local self-government, based on the legal analysis of urbanization and ruralization processes, introducing new concepts of "the limit of urbanization of the state", "borrowed urbanization" and "non-sovereign urbanization". The role of rural forms of urban life is shown and its models for ...
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Карташов А. С., Правоприменение 2025 Т. 9 № 1 С. 104–112
The subject. In the 20th century the problems of urbanization began to be discussed at the international level. In the early of the present century the international community moved to develop standards for human rights in cities. At the same time, special attention was given to the right to the city. The article is devoted ...
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Bricheva S., Akhmetgaleeva N., Panin A. et al., Anthropologie 2024 Vol. 128 No. 2 Article 103241
The Byki complex on the left bank of the Seim River (Desna basin) comprises eight sites, including multilayer ones, differing chronologically and culturally. The dates of key cultural layers are from 21 to 18 thousand BP. Questioning the use of local landscapes by prehistoric people and the reasons for repeated occupation of the area required ...
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Koryakov Y., Mazurova J., , in: Multilingual Moscow. Dynamics of Language and Migration in a Capital City.: Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2024. P. 25–46.
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Dregulo A., Khodachek A. M., Инновации 2024 Т. 297 № 1 С. 19–27
The geographical location of Saint-Petersburg and the history of its creation contributed to significant urbanization and economic growth of both the city itself and suburban areas. The article provides a retrospective look at the formation of the natural and economic system of the Saint-Petersburg agglomeration, assesses the current situation related to water resources, air quality, ...
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Tabolin V., Градостроительное право 2024 № 4 С. 5–8
In the article, the author examines the concept of "civilization" from the point of view of its relationship with the concept of "urban civilization", puts forward and substantiates a hypothesis about the existence of similar conditions for the development of urban civilization in Russia in the 20-30s of the twentieth century and its current state. ...
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Glushkov A., В кн.: Архив в социуме — социум в архиве. Материалы VII Всероссийской научно-практической конференции.: Объединенный государственный архив Челябинской области, 2024. Гл. 19 С. 89–92.
The 1930s became a period of formation of a new Ural identity. Based on the myth of the "stronghold of the state" and the concept of a "storehouse", the idea of the Greater Urals as a "fortress" was formed, which occurred due to accelerated industrialization and the emergence of giant factories, such as the Ural ...
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Карташов А. С., Вестник Воронежского государственного университета. Серия: Право 2024 Т. 56 № 1 С. 58–67
The article analyzes the basic international acts of universal (UN) and regional (Council of Europe, EU, CIS) levels of urban development and ensuring the rights of urban population, and determines the possibility of their perception by public authorities of the Russian Federation. The international documents reviewed in the article are mainly of a recommendatory nature ...
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Popov A., Агуникян Н. Т., Бочкова Д. Е., Уральский исторический вестник 2024 Т. № 1(82) С. 127–135
The article considers the formation of urbanized practices in green spaces using the example of soviet Chelyabinsk. In the 1930s–1960s, Chelyabinsk was a fast-growing industrial city, where a large relict pine forest was preserved. For soviet managers and new city dwellers, the forest became a “testing ground” for mastering new practices of interaction with nature ...
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Колобашкина Т. А., Векторы благополучия: экономика и социум 2023 Т. 51 № 4 С. 196–209
A series of recent socio-economic crises has increased the attention of researchers and politicians to the topic of well-being. Relevance. Caused by the emergence of new challenges associated with rapid development of technological and digital environment of world cities, which carries both new opportunities and risks for humans. On the one hand, digitalization makes it ...
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Karachurina L. B., Mkrtchyan N. V., Журнал Новой экономической ассоциации 2023 № 4(61) С. 93–109
The article analyzes the results of population dynamics at the level of settlements based on the data of the Population Census‑2020. Data on the numbers of settlements and the population in large cities, their suburbs, and peripheral territories is compared with similar census data from 2010. The new census showed that population concentration continues in ...
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Ovchinnikov P., Вопросы политологии 2021 Т. 11 № 1(65) С. 124–129
The article attempts to identify the main barriers to the transformation of the socio-political system of Russia in the context of the influence of key factors: digitalization, urbanization and generational changes. Among the factors hindering the development of society, the author identifies the following: bureaucratization of the political system, low level of social ties, high ...
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Vasenev V., M. Varentsov, Konstantinov P. et al., Science of the Total Environment 2021 Vol. 786 Article 147457
Urbanization coincides with remarkable environmental changes including vegetation, soil and climate. An urban heat island is a well-known urban mesoclimatic anomaly, however its effect on functions of urban soils considering their spatial-temporal variability remain overlooked. The research aimed to explain the urban heat island effect on soil microbial respiration by linking meso-climatic CCLM and TERRA_URB ...
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Карташов А. С., Труды Института государства и права Российской академии наук 2023 Т. 18 № 4 С. 108–133
Modern urban processes are closely connected with the implementation and use of digital technologies. As a result, the phenomenon of “smart cities” first gained popularity in the scientific literature, and later in the political and legal agenda. There is no unified approach to the definition of a smart city. To our view, it can be ...
Added: September 18, 2023
Зинькина Ю. В., Korotayev A., В кн.: Системный мониторинг глобальных и региональных рисков.: Учитель, 2022. Гл. 13 С. 363–402.
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Smirnov O., Безвербный В. А., Социум и власть 2022 № 1 (91) С. 62–74
Small cities have a unique socio-economic and cultural potential for developing Russian regions, which is manifested in their unique features: compactness, historical heritage, the existence of rare industries and the local economy. At the same time, today in Russia the realization of their potential is primarily hindered by the existing system of political institutions and ...
Added: April 21, 2023