scholarly journals CREATIVE INITIATIVES OF THE POPULATION OF SMALL CITIES IN THE PERM REGION

Author(s):  
Базарьева Лилия ◽  

The article describes the manifestation of creative initiatives of the population of small towns of the Perm Territory in various aspects of modern life. It is emphasized that small cities have a special weight of historical and cultural plan. The article reflects the close relationship of small towns with villages and rural settlements in the administrative, cultural and socioeconomic terms. The example of a number of small cities in the Perm region shows the manifestation of creative initiatives of the population in different spheres of life of a small city and their impact on the sociocultural condition of the rural population.

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 173-184
Author(s):  
Александр Трухачев ◽  
Aleksandr Trukhachev

Overcoming stereotypes of traditional employment is one of the biggest challenges in regions with a stable structure of the labor market. This primarily concerns rural areas, where agricultural activities are the main sources of labor places, but at the same time they have a pronounced seasonality and experience the negative impact of the outflow of labor. As foreign experience shows, development of rural tourism as a kind of non-agricultural activity is one of the factors saving, retention and attraction of labor resources in rural areas. However, the development of this factor often requires the implementation of targeted efforts of local and regional tourism bodies. The article is focused on the offering the system of instruments of attraction the rural population to the tourist industry. Development of instruments of involving the rural population in tourist activities is carried out in order to realize the functions of rural tourism as a factor of sustainable development of rural areas. Work with the population is an important aspect of the development of rural tourism. Owners of households have to make sure in the prospects of development of tourism activities in rural areas, and in their ability to create and manage the attractive tourism product; they also have to gain access to the necessary technologies. In this regard, we consider it expedient to offer number of instruments aimed at creating an effective system of involving the rural population in tourism activities. Increasing the involvement of the rural population in tourism activities will significantly expand the range of services, will contribute to solving the most important social issues in the areas of small towns and rural settlements and other municipal entities in the region. This article describes instruments of attracting the rural population to occupations in tourism activity, which includes measures for information and education in the field of rural tourism. Based on the authorial research of the needs of subjects of rural tourism in the methodological support the exemplary program of information and consulting arrangements is proposed.


2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greggor Mattson

Despite the widely hailed importance of gay bars, what we know of them comes largely from the gayborhoods of four “great cities.” This paper explores the similarities of 55 lone small–city gay bars to each other and the challenges they pose to the sexualities and urban literatures. Small–city gay bars have long been integrated with straight people in their often red–state communities; they are undifferentiated and unspecialized subcultural amenities not just for LGBT people, but for straights as well, fostering cosmopolitan lifestyles for large geographical regions whose residents nevertheless prefer small–city living for reasons, including proximity to kin or nature, and the fact that many big–city pleasures can be found everywhere. Contrasts between these findings and previous scholarship reveal the ways in which the latter has often implicitly defined urbanism and cosmopolitanism in terms of commercial diversity, as do studies of gentrification or gayborhoods. Small cities provide a way to integrate studies along the urban–rural interface, including places left to rural studies by both sexualities and urban scholarship. As an analytic object of comparison, small cities can help to disentangle urban effects from the cosmopolitanism of modern life generally.


2021 ◽  
Vol 98 (6) ◽  
pp. 73-81
Author(s):  
A.V. SHUTKA ◽  
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E.I. GUREVA ◽  

Variants of architectural, spatial, and compositional solutions of entrance signs in small towns are considered. The article analyzes the features of architectural and artistic, structural, and compositional solutions of the entrance sign, as well as the use of finishing materials. The urgency of development of small cities taking into account the historical, cultural, economic characteristics and achievements of the district, as well as symbols of culture and long history of the region in the context of solving problems of urban development. The requirements for the assessment of each characteristic indicator that affects the identification of new architectural, artistic and aesthetic possibilities for the representation of the symbol at the entrance to a small city are given.


Sweet Greeks ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 137-157
Author(s):  
Ann Flesor Beck

Chapter 7 focuses on the smaller cities in central Illinois where Greek immigrant confectioners settled and established small Greek communities, centered on the Greek Orthodox churches that were funded and supported by the Greek confectioners and other successful Greek businessmen and community leaders. Unlike the small towns where only one or sometimes two Greeks might open a candy store, these small cities often had several, such as Springfield, which had as many as ten to fifteen Greek confectioners around 1920. Many of these Greek entrepreneurs took their earnings and bought real estate or opened other businesses. The most famous of these were Gus and Louis Kerasotes, who went from making candy to opening the first of what became a nationwide chain of movie houses.


2020 ◽  
Vol 197 (6) ◽  
pp. 81-88
Author(s):  
V. Volkov ◽  
Vladimir Nabokov ◽  
N. Yuldashev

Abstract. The purpose of scientific research – identify the problems of providing qualified personnel for agricultural enterprises of the Perm region and suggest ways to solve them. The main research methods used were statistical observation, comparative analysis and economic assessment. As a result of the research the problems of providing qualified personnel for agricultural enterprises were considered. It is noted that more than 60 % of Russian enterprises, including agricultural ones, are experiencing a shortage of professional personnel. It is suggested that investments in the development of human resources provoke an increase in labor productivity and ultimately the economic efficiency of enterprises. The article refers to a decrease in the share of employees with professional education in Russian agro-industrial enterprises. The analysis of the number of urban and rural population of the Perm region is carried out. The composition of the rural population by main age groups was studied. It is concluded that rural settlements are losing their working population, and agro-industrial enterprises in the absence of a surge of young professional staff face the problem of aging personnel. The analysis of the birth rate and mortality of the population of the Perm region, including in cities and rural settlements, was carried out. It is assumed that a significant decrease in the birth rate of the population is a consequence of the difficult socio-economic situation in the Perm region. The analysis of the reasons leading to the outflow of rural population to the cities of the region and beyond is also carried out. The Federal target program for rural development aimed at improving the housing conditions of agricultural workers, building schools and pre-school educational institutions, putting into operation paramedic and midwifery centers, building sports facilities and leisure centers, and developing rural infrastructure is presented as measures to address the identified problems. It is assumed that the most significant factors that can keep young professional staff in agro-industrial enterprises are their wages and housing conditions. It is concluded that to attract young people to agricultural production, it is necessary to provide employees of agro-industrial enterprises with their own housing and raise their wages to the level of the average economy of the region. The scientific novelty of the research consists in a set of measures proposed by the authors to solve the personnel problem of agro-industrial enterprises.


Author(s):  
A. A. Bukova ◽  
L. A. Zazykina

Small towns are gradually integrating into the Russian socio-economic system and are forced to increasingly participate in the competition for offering quality living conditions for citizens, attracting investments and the necessary workforce. Priority of the marketing concept in choosing approaches for the development of small cities was determined. In achieving the goals pursued by the marketing of a small city, an important role belongs to entrepreneurship as a catalyst for the economic activity of this subject. It should be borne in mind that a developing small business does not compensate for what was lost as a result of market transformations of past decades in cities that have lost the functions of enterprises of a city-forming base or transport and logistics centers, if it does not apply all the possibilities of modern marketing methods and tools. Traditional approaches to doing business in these conditions cannot fundamentally solve the problems of reviving the economy of a small city and require changes. The development of such forms of business as electronic marketing may be an opportunity to enter new markets and reduce tension in the labor market. The development of small towns requires special procedures: improving the image of the administrative-territorial formation and increasing competitiveness with the help of marketing tools and technologies. The use of electronic marketing is changing the entire business environment of a small city. As a result, the investment climate rises and the welfare of the subject increases. Electronic marketing adds factors such as round-the-clock availability, completeness of information and the presence of feedback (in the form of feedbacks), interactivity, instant reaction and constant updates, as well as other advantages of the virtual environment in the real process of promoting the territory.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greggor Mattson

Despite the widely hailed importance of gay bars, what we know about them in the U.S. comes from outliers: gay neighborhoods in four big cities. This essay explores the similarities of 52 small-city gay bars to each other, and their differences from big-city gayborhood bars. Small-city gay bars are surprisingly integrated with straight people in their often red-state communities and are as racially diverse than the counties in which they reside. They are subcultural amenities not just for LGBT people but for straights as well, fostering cosmopolitan lifestyles for large geographical regions. I conclude with an argument for the importance of small cities to understand urbanism generally. Small cities are a key analytic object to disentangle urban effects from modern life generally. They reveal the way in which contemporary urban scholars often implicitly define urbanism in terms of commercial diversity at the expense of the reasons why many people prefer to live in small cities: proximity to kin or nature, and the fact that most big-city pleasures can be found everywhere. Studying small cities provides one way of integrating studies along the urban-rural interface and developing a more holistic, empirically rich, and theoretically sound sociology of place.


Author(s):  
Yi Hua ◽  
Zhi Qiu ◽  
Wenjing Luo ◽  
Yue Wang ◽  
Zhu Wang

Building concentrated resettlement community in small towns is mostly used to deal with resettlement construction for rural migrants in economically developed regions in China, which leads to migrants’ living environment changing from rural settlements where production and living are intertwined to an urban community that only supports living functions. However, the urbanized environment is contrary to elderly migrants’ behavior, resulting in contradictions or conflicts between migrants and resettlement communities, reflecting a lack of urbanization synchronization between migrants and resettlement community environments. Further, elderly migrants are also equipped with different degrees and types of urbanization characteristics, thus reflecting different abilities to adapt to the urban community environment. Based on the corresponding relationship between people’s different production and living needs and urbanization, this research starts by investigating the production and living needs of elderly migrants, and further clarifies the environmental adaptability of elderly migrants by sorting the types and characteristics of urbanization of elderly migrants to provide a reference basis for the planning and construction of future resettlement areas. The research uses questionnaires and semi-structured interviews to investigate the population attributes and characteristics of elderly migrants, as well as their different needs for production and living. The research uses hierarchical cluster analysis, the one-way ANOVA test and Chi-square test to constructed a four-quadrant model on human urbanization features: an Urban Group with both living and production urbanized (Group H-H); a Half-urban-half-rural Group with only living needs urbanized (Group H-L); a Half-urban-Half-rural Group with only production needs urbanized (Group L-H); and a Rural group with both living and production needs not urbanized (Group L-L). Finally, based on the results, this research proposed three elderly environment construction orientations of “Promote the Supply Level of Urban Public Services”, “Create a Place That Embodies the Spirit of Immigrants’ Homeland”, and “Moderate Consideration of Agricultural Production Needs” for residential planning.


1938 ◽  
Vol 70 (11) ◽  
pp. 230-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Stuart Walley

The following notes were assembled in arranging the Protarchoides material in the National Collection. In establishing the identity of Protarchoides mellipes (Prov.) it has been found necessary to synonymize one species. A species allied to mellipes is described as new and a table is provided for the separation of the four known North American species. The recording of Trichiosoma as host for a member of this genus is further evidence of the close relationship of the genus with Protarchus Foer.


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