“Deception begins with trade . . .”

The article explores Vladimir Arsen’ev’s rationalization of the economic activities that he observed during expeditions in the Russian Far East, predominantly in the Ussuri region. It analyzes his categorization of the local population, which was derived from nonmatching taxonomies and included concepts such as nationality, religion, race, and subjecthood. Disentangling this categorization helps to outline the main contexts that influenced Arsen’ev, such as postwar political and military concerns, challenges of settler colonialism, and nationalizing empire. The article shows how Arsen’ev’s intertwined life experiences as a military officer and geographer, colonization official, ethnographer, and resource-conscious naturalist outlined the limits of his imagination and provided the ground for his intellectual innovations.

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Consolidation of small and medium mining business in the gold mining industry of the Russian Far East

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/20185604012 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 56 ◽

pp. 04012

Author(s):

Irina Kradenykh

Keyword(s):

Gold Mining ◽

Russian Far East ◽

Far East ◽

Mining Industry ◽

Economic Activities ◽

Resource Base ◽

Mining Companies ◽

Russian Economy ◽

Placer Deposits ◽

The Russian Far East

The gold mining industry of the Russian Far East has a great development potential, whose economic growth largely depends on the efficiency of developing a unique mineral resource base. To do this, it is necessary to solve a number of tasks, including the management and organization of economic activities of enterprises engaged in the extraction of placer gold in medium and small volumes. Gold mining companies themselves positively assess the prospects for the development of the industry, despite the preservation of external restrictions imposed by Western countries. At the same time, the current position of the modern gold mining industry is determined not only by the state of the Russian economy, but also by a number of branch features related to the management of gold mining at the enterprise level. At the present time, there are increasing questions about the feasibility of consolidation of small and medium mining enterprises, which will allow them to overcome current trends in the economic development of the industry, by combining their own resources. At the same time, in practice, reverse phenomena are observed, indicating that the industry is segmented and the number of mining companies developing placer deposits is gradually increasing. However, consolidation processes, in the form of integration associations, represent one of the directions of development and effective functioning of Russian gold mining enterprises, therefore they require comprehensive research and remain relevant.

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Editorial

Sibirica ◽

10.3167/sib.2020.190301 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 19 (3) ◽

pp. v-vi

Author(s):

Ryan Tucker Jones

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Russian Far East ◽

Far East ◽

Film Adaptation ◽

Military Officer ◽

Scholarly Literature ◽

Historical Significance ◽

The Far East ◽

Special Collection ◽

The Russian Far East

Vladimir Klavdeevich Arsen’ev is one of the best-known figures of the Russian Far East, and yet the scholarly literature — particularly in English — on his historical significance is surprisingly thin. Literary scholars, drawn by Arsen’ev’s famous novel Dersu Uzala, and cinema scholars, intrigued by Akira Kurosawa’s masterful film adaptation of that work, have most critically engaged with the Russian polymath’s work (Arsen’ev was, after all, a military officer, an explorer, an author, an ethnographer, a bureaucrat, and more). Much more rarely have scholars assessed Arsen’ev’s important role as an actor in and commentator on Russian colonization in the Far East. This special collection of articles in Sibirica makes a start at that assessment, identifying several areas where a study of Arsen’ev’s life and writings can illuminate important aspects of the region’s early twentieth-century history.

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Exceptional Subjects: Koreans, Settler Colonialism, and Imperial Subjecthood in the Russian Far East, 1860s–1917

Nationalities Papers ◽

10.1017/nps.2020.63 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-17

Author(s):

Sergey Glebov

Keyword(s):

Settler Colonialism ◽

Russian Far East ◽

Far East ◽

Russian Empire ◽

Russian Revolution ◽

The Status ◽

The Russian Empire ◽

The Right ◽

Far Eastern ◽

The Russian Far East

Abstract This article traces debates and policies of the Russian imperial administrators toward the Korean population in the Far Eastern provinces of the Russian Empire. Koreans were initially treated as de facto members of the peasant estate, and in the 1890s many were granted the status of Russian subjects. Yet the rise of settler colonialism and a nationalizing empire from the 1880s, and especially after the Russian revolution of 1905, complicated the issue of Korean subjecthood and led to policies that excluded Koreans from the regulations normally applicable to peasants, such as the right to increased land allotments. At the same time, the neotraditionalist approach to the management of difference in the empire was still present in the 1910s, albeit never clearly articulated to compete with the nationalizing idiom.

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Changes in the labor force mobility in the Russian Far East regions

Regional Economics Theory and Practice ◽

10.24891/re.18.9.1675 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 18 (9) ◽

pp. 1675-1696

Author(s):

V.N. D'yachenko ◽

V.V. Lazareva

Keyword(s):

Labor Mobility ◽

Russian Far East ◽

Far East ◽

Economic Activities ◽

Worker Mobility ◽

Regional Labor Markets ◽

Regional Labor ◽

Regional Specificity ◽

Municipal Level ◽

The Russian Far East

Subject. This article examines the transformations in regional labor markets, causing changes in labor mobility, redistribution of employment between sectors of the economy, economic activities, jobs in the resettlement system of the region. Objectives. The article aims to define regional particularities of worker mobility. Methods. For the study, we used logical, comparative, and statistical analyses, and classification. Results. The article describes adaptive strategies of population behavior in the labor market in the context of crisis processes in the region's economy. It also identifies trends in employment patterns at the municipal level and assesses the characteristics of the development of human settlements in terms of spatial labor mobility. Conclusions. Changes in migration processes, redistribution of employment by line of business, and the development of small business and informal employment have significant regional specificity that must be taken into account when making management decisions.

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SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT & INFRASTRUCTURE CONNECTIVITY OF THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST

Scientific Review Series 1 Economics and Law ◽

10.26653/2076-4650-2020-6-04 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 41-56

Author(s):

Maksim V. Fomin ◽

Keyword(s):

Russian Far East ◽

Local Population ◽

Far East ◽

Spatial Development ◽

Railway Network ◽

Progressive Development ◽

Territorial Planning ◽

Port Facilities ◽

And Migration ◽

The Russian Far East

The article deals with the spatial development of the Russian Far East in the context of infrastructure connectivity and migration. The construction of a new railway network, the renovation of highways and the modernization of airports are the most important conditions for the successful functioning of the state, ensuring competitiveness, socio-economic growth and capitalization of territories. The coordinated and progressive development of infrastructure not only contributes to the retention of the local population, but also increases the investment and migration attractiveness of the territories. Taking into account the territorial conditions of Russia-first of all, its length and spatial disproportion-the problems of transport and logistics infrastructure are of particular importance. The conclusions obtained as a result of the study can be used both in strategic planning at the level of macro-regions, and in conducting further research at the national and interregional levels. Keywords: spatial development, territorial planning, migration, The Russian Far East, airfield infrastructure, railway network, regional highways, port facilities.

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How Effective Are Special Economic Zones in the Russian Far East: A Financial Assessment Using Firm-Level Data

Spatial Economics ◽

10.14530/se.2021.1.035-065 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 35-65

Author(s):

Yoshisada Shida ◽

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Viktoriya Kan ◽

Keyword(s):

Small Businesses ◽

Policy Development ◽

Russian Far East ◽

Far East ◽

Good Time ◽

Initial Growth ◽

Economic Activities ◽

Firm Level ◽

Financial Assessment ◽

The Russian Far East

With ‘Advanced Development Zones (TORs)’ formed in the Russian Far East in the mid-2010s, now it is a good time to overview the first five years of this policy development. Here, in contrast to the mostly qualitative prior studies, we assess the initial growth of the Far East TORs quantitatively. In order to achieve this, we set up a novel financial database which we use to trace the dynamics of zonal economic activities, compare their fiscal performances, and capture their structural differences. Our analysis, based on the database composing resident registers and financial accounting reports, reveals the following. First, a few TORs successfully attract new residents, leading to regional heterogeneity of the resident distribution and zone development dynamics. Second, there is one or a few companies in each TOR that dominate in the zone and determine total TOR revenue. Thus, their presences sway the TORs’ economic performance. Curiously, these ‘dominant’ firms do not necessarily act as ‘anchor residents’ originally supposed to initiate foundations of clusters in their industries. Third, small businesses, on the contrast, show rather low profitability; however, there is variation among companies in different TORs. SMEs are hoped to play a key role in creating local labor market stability and adding to the regional economy what centralized big business cannot. In this regard, the TOR’s institutional improvement is vital to ensure local SME profitability. Summing up, we bid to label TORs as having ‘rich’ or ‘poor’ development potential to attract and stimulate SME in the zones

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The Political Ecology of Vladimir Arsen’ev

Sibirica ◽

10.3167/sib.2020.190303 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 19 (3) ◽

pp. 15-36

Author(s):

Sergey Glebov

Keyword(s):

Political Ecology ◽

Russian Far East ◽

Far East ◽

Korean Immigrants ◽

The Political ◽

Military Operations ◽

Military Officer ◽

Native Peoples ◽

The Far East ◽

The Russian Far East

The article describes the life and work of Vladimir Klavdievich Arsen’ev in the context of the development of settler colonial project in the Far East. The article argues that Arsen’ev, a military officer and a self-taught geographer and ethnographer, shared in a political ecology, which combined “defense” of native peoples and the nature of the Russian Far East with racialized views of Chinese and Korean immigrants. This political ecology, in particular, led Arsen’ev to take part in military operations designed to cleanse remote parts of the Ussuri region of the Chinese and to develop administrative proposals on the governance of native peoples, which foreshadowed Soviet projects.

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Tax debt as a threat to the economic security of the Russian Far East

Financial Analytics Science and Experience ◽

10.24891/fa.13.2.216 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 216-242

Author(s):

V.A. Yakimova ◽

A.A. Orekhova

Keyword(s):

Russian Far East ◽

Consumer Price Index ◽

Far East ◽

Federal District ◽

Economic Security ◽

Factors Affecting ◽

Correlation And Regression Analysis ◽

Debt Collection ◽

Far Eastern ◽

The Russian Far East

Subject. The article addresses the tax liabilities of taxpayers registered in the subjects of the Far Eastern Federal District, which should be paid to the consolidated budget of the Russian Federation, as well as the factors of the said debt growth. Objectives. Our aim is to assess the level of tax debt of regions of the Russian Far East and identify the correlation between the factors and the amount of tax debt. Methods. The study rests on methods of analysis, generalization, grouping, systematization, and the correlation and regression analysis. Results. We analyzed the level of tax debt for the entire Far Eastern Federal District and by region, identified factors affecting the growth of tax debt therein. The paper assesses the structure of tax debt by type of taxes and activity of debtors. The unveiled factors may help control changes in the size of tax debt in the Russian Far East and develop effective measures to improve the debt collection. Conclusions. The study shows that there is an increase in the tax debt in the regions of the Russian Far East, in the VAT in particular. The factor analysis revealed that the volume of sales of wholesale enterprises, investment in fixed capital, the consumer price index have the largest impact on the amount of tax debt.

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