scholarly journals Small and Medium-Sized Towns in the Settlement System of the Russian North: 1939–2020

2021 ◽  
pp. 223-249
Author(s):  
Viktor V. FAUZER ◽  
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Andrey V. SMIRNOV ◽  
Tatyana S. LYTKINA ◽  
Galina N. FAUZER ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Population Group ◽  
Settlement System ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
The North ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
Russian North ◽  
Dynamics Of Population ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Northern Territories ◽  
The One

The article examines the settlement system of the Russian North, which was previously determined by decisions of ministries and departments, and now it is changing under the influence of resource corporations' activities. The focus is on small and medium-sized towns that are part of the supporting framework of settlement, ensuring connectivity of the northern territories. The authors analyze the dynamics of population, including urban one, and the population of small and medium-sized cities. The study identifies periods of upward and downward dynamics for each population group and settlements. If the country is drawing the population to the west, then in the North it is concentrated in the Asian part. The article shows that urban settlements were created multifunctional, with the monopoly of a city-forming enterprise, which, on the one hand, made them economically vulnerable, and on the other hand — more adaptable to external conditions. According to the author's methodology, small and medium towns are ranked according to the share of the population of these cities in the total population of the region. The authors have identified four groups of regions that have an insufficient, medium, high and excessive share of the population of small and medium towns; the optimal boundaries of this share are proposed. The authors have identified four groups of regions that have an insufficient, medium, high and excess share of the population of small and medium towns; the optimal boundaries of this share are proposed. The study revealed the similarity (concentration of the population in large cities) and the difference in the structure of settlements in the North (the share of the population living in small and medium urban settlements, is lower in the countryside). The research results will be applied in the development of strategic documents for the development of northern towns.

scholarly journals Demographic Assessment of the Sustainability of Small and Medium-sized Cities in the Russian North

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 552-569
Author(s):  
Viktor V. Fauzer ◽  
Andrey V. Smirnov ◽  
Galina N. Fauzer
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
The North ◽  
Demographic Dynamics ◽  
Russian North ◽  
Northern Territories ◽  
Market Relations

Since the dissolution of the USSR and advent of market relations, small and medium-sized Russian cities have experienced many economic and social problems due to their peripheral status. At the same time, they form the main framework for the settlement of the northern territories. The research aims to reveal the importance of small and medium-sized cities in the set- tlement system of 13 regions of the Russian North by studying their demographic dynamics. We examined the hypothesis that the demographic sustainability of these cities depends on the time of their formation. A proposed methodology for assessing the demographic sustainability of cities is based on five groups: demographically sustainable, relatively sustainable, unsustainable, critically unsustainable, instability. Four periods of the formation of small and medium-sized cities are defined: colonisation of the Russian North (1584–1917); industrialisation and urbanisation of the northern territories (1918–1959); from coercion to encouragement — northern romance (1960–1989); from settlement to abandonment — depopulation (1990–2020). For each period, the cities were assessed in terms of their demographic sustainability. The current sustainability of the cities was shown to be dependent on the period of their formation. Compared with the rest of Russia, the structure of settlements in the North revealed both similarities (concentration of the population in large cities) and differences (the proportion of the population living in small and medium-sized cities is higher, but lower in rural areas). Future research will focus on developing a methodology for assessing the «saturation» of small and medium-sized cities in the Russian North.

scholarly journals Interethnic Marriages of Indigenous Peoples of the North in the Krasnoyarsk Territory in the Late 1950s

2021 ◽  
pp. 29-34
Author(s):  
R.V. Pavlyukevich ◽  
E.V. Barmina
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Mixed Marriages ◽  
The North ◽  
Northern Territories ◽  
The One ◽  
Interethnic Marriages ◽  
The Russian Language

The article is devoted to the phenomenon of interethnic marriages between Russians and indigenous peoples of the North in the Krasnoyarsk territory in the 1950s. The research is based on the materials of censuses and surveys conducted by local authorities in the late 1950s. The focus of researchers was made by the Enets, the Nganasans, the Selkups, the Evenks and the Kets. Since the second half of the 20th century, contacts between the Russian population and the peoples of the far North of the Krasnoyarsk territory have become more frequent. In the context of construction projects in the region, there is an increase in marriages between Russians and representatives of local indigenous peoples. These marriages had an ambiguous impact, on the one hand they were an expression of the principle of "friendship of peoples", one of the basic principles of the Soviet state and contributed to the integration of the Northern territories into the Krasnoyarsk territory. On the other hand, mixed marriages accelerated the assimilation of these peoples and contributed to the cease and extinction of their culture. Their parents positioned most of the children in such marriages as Russian. In everyday speech these families, as well as a rule, was dominated by the Russian language, Russian culture.

scholarly journals On Russia’s “Northern” Strategy: Development or Settlement

2020 ◽  
pp. 88-103
Author(s):  
Nadezhda V. Goroshko ◽  
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Sergey V. Patsala ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Strategy Development ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
Demographic Development ◽  
Far North ◽  
The North ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
Russian North

The article systematizes the main approaches to the development of the regions of the Far North and equivalent areas, and identifies trends in the demographic development of the Russian North at the present stage. The necessity of developing this macroregion is substantiated, taking into account the disproportion between the size of the country’s space and the size of its population. In Russia, there is an urgent need to move away from the costly “extensive” development type. In the North of the country, it is necessary to focus on the point-by-point development of individual relatively large urban settlements and ports that could play the role of “growth poles” and infrastructure corridors that allow retaining these sparsely populated areas.

Barometrical observations, showing the effect of the direction of the wind on the difference between distant barometers

1843 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 386-387
Keyword(s):  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
The North ◽  
Heating And Cooling ◽  
Westerly Winds ◽  
Different Seasons ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Times ◽  
The One

The author institutes a comparison between the barometric heights as observed at the Apartments of the Royal Society, and at his house in Herefordshire, in the neighbourhood of Ross, with a view to ascertain the influence of prevailing winds on the atmospheric pressure. The barometers thus compared together were of the same construction, and by the same maker; and the times of observation, namely nine o’clock a. m. and three o’clock p. m., were the same at both places, the distance between which is 110 miles in longitude, and about 20 in latitude. The degree of accordance in the march of the two barometers is exhibited by that of curves traced on three sheets accompanying the paper. The results are given in eight tables. The author agrees with Schubler in ascribing the currents prevailing in the atmosphere to the variable relations of heating and cooling which obtains between the Atlantic Ocean and the continent of Europe at different seasons; the facts ascertained by the series of observations here presented being in accordance with that hypothesis. If the northerly and westerly winds in England be partly the effect of the expansion of the air on the continent, then the barometer which is nearest to the continent, or in this instance that at London, ought to be relatively more depressed than the one more distant; or if the southerly and easterly winds be regarded as proceeding to the ocean, then, for a similar reason, the barometer nearest to the ocean ought to be relatively depressed; and that both these effects are produced, is shown by the tables. This view of the subject also, the author remarks, is corroborated by Raymond’s observations, detailed in his memoir on the determination of the height of Clermont Ferrand, from which it appears that with the north winds, the southern barometer was most depressed; while the reverse occurred with the southerly winds.

New contribution to the survey of the theory of the acrotony on the branch of one year grapevine: I - Investigation in the Tunisian vineyard

OENO One ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Béchir Ezzili ◽  
M. Bejaoui
Keyword(s):  
Apical Part ◽  
The Other ◽  
North African ◽  
The North ◽  
Result Show ◽  
The Difference ◽  
One Year ◽  
The One ◽  
New Hypothesis ◽  
Test Result

<p style="text-align: justify;">Research in the conduct mode of grapevines other than the north African goblet incited us to make an investigation on the no bursting on table vine canes and to study if the vestigial dormancy is equivalent to acrotony phenomenon. Results of this survey clearly show that this phenomenon varies from one year to the other and that there is a negative interrelationship between the percentage of buds no bursted and the diameter of the basis of the cane on the one hand and of the top on the other hand. The difference in diameters of the basis and apical part is weakly correlated with the percentage of buds no bursted. As a result we concluded that at the level of the cane, the percentage of buds no bursted doesn't only depend on the diameter of the cane but also on the fixing of this one on the carrier axis. The bibliographic survey puts in exergue the low temperature role. We tried to dissociate the acrotony phenomenon and the vestigial dormancy. Test result show that the long cane fixing at the temperature of 4°C during 10 days removes partially or completely the vestigial dormancy but the phenomenon of the acrotony persists. We examined the qualitative answers of the investigation. In Tunisia, on long canes of Muscatel of Italy, a certain percentage of one year old presents both the acrotony (80 p. cent) and the basitony phenomena (8 p. cent) in 1995. The discussion of results of the investigation allowed us to give out a new hypothesis of work concerning the phenomenon which we will to verify.</p>

scholarly journals XVI. A comparison of barometrical measurement, with the trigonometrical determination of a height at Spitzbergen

1824 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 290-309
Keyword(s):  
North Coast ◽  
Flat Plates ◽  
Comparative Measurement ◽  
Plate Xiii ◽  
Additional Advantage ◽  
The North ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The One ◽  
The Hill

The hill selected for the comparative measurement was, as far as could be judged, the highest, within convenient dis­tance, of which the ascent was practicable, being rather above the general height of the hills on the western part of the north coast of Spitzbergen; the summit was distant less than two miles from the Observatory on the Inner Norway Island, in a direction very nearly due south, as the mark, which was placed to determine the point of measurement, was within the field of the meridian transit instrument: the hill was situated on the main land, and was divided from the island on which the Observatory was established, by a sea channel of little more than a mile across, making part of the harbour of Fair-haven. The annexed sketch of the harbour and of the ad­jacent coast will be sufficient to point out the positions of the hill and of the Observatory, and is the more necessary, as the plan of Fair-haven, published in Captain Phipps’s Voyage, (in which an endeavour might otherwise be made to trace them,) is so exceedingly inaccurate though purporting to be from actual survey, that after having been nearly three weeks on the spot, I am even more perplexed than on the day of arrival, to assign in the plan, the island which is in­tended to represent the one on which the Observatory is placed, or the position of the hill in question ; the latter, I apprehend must have been designed either by the one marked ( a ) in Captain Phipps's, (or rather in Mr. D’Auvergne's) plan, or by that marked f , although neither cor­responds, even within ordinary limits, in height, or in relative position. The present sketch, Plate XIII. is taken principally from a manuscript survey of Captain Beechey's, when at Spitzbergen as a Lieutenant in Captain Buchan's expedition of 1818; Captain Beechey's Survey has been found remark­ably correct wheresoever we have had an opportunity of verifying it. The shore of the main land to the north eastward of the hill forms a small bay, which being frozen over, afforded a perfectly level base, in which no correction was required for inequalities of surface, and the consequent liability to error introduced in the reduction was avoided. Having stationed a line of poles in such manner as to cover each other exactly, by means of a telescope placed at the one extremity, the dis­tance between the extremes was carefully measured with a Gunter's chain, by Mr. Henry Foster, of His Majesty's Ship Griper, and myself, and was found to amount to 36 lengths, or 2376 feet; the chain was drawn along the surface of the ice at each remove, so that the links were prevented from entanglement; it was stretched at each repetition as tightly as two persons could draw against each other, and the spots marked by flat plates of iron, furnished with long spikes by which they were fixed securely in the ice; the temperature of the air was 35°, and of the chain 32°. In a second measurement, with the same precautions as on the first occasion, the difference did not amount to more than an inch and half. The extremities of the base, being abreast of two projecting points of land, one on the main shore, and the other on a small rocky island, offsets were made at right angles to the base, each of 38 feet, and the spots carefully marked, as containing between them the distance originally measured, with the additional advantage of a firm foundation at the extremities for future operations. This base is the line marked A B in the annexed plan, Plate XIV.

scholarly journals ETHNONYMS AS A CONSTITUENT PART OF THE REGIONAL ONOMASTICON: THE NORTH-EAST OF RUSSIA AND THE ETHNONYMS CHUKCHA AND CHUKCHANKA AS THE EXAMPLES

2020 ◽  
pp. 77-89
Author(s):  
Михаил Спартакович Тейкин
Keyword(s):  
Wide Distribution ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Russian North ◽  
Regional Component ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Far Eastern ◽  
Eastern Regional

Региональная ономастика представляет собою разветвлённую систему, охватывающую имена, имеющие хождение в определённом регионе, – от относительно известных за пределами края до малознакомых. Сегодня ономастика – самостоятельная отрасль науки, предметом изучения которой служат как лексемы, безусловно относящиеся к собственным именам (напр.: топонимы, гидронимы), так и лексемы, стоящие на стыке проприативов и апеллятивов, в число которых входят этнонимы. Изучение онимов края помогает найти лингвистические связи между неродственными соседними языками, выявить диалектные особенности, обнаружить места предыдущего обитания народов, выявить культурное взаимодействие и языковые заимствования, в связи с чем данная тема имеет особую актуальность. Региональные онимы могут являться регионализмами с точки зрения региональной лингвистики – постольку, поскольку они характерны для отдельной местности, но малоизвестны или же почти неизвестны вовне. В настоящей статье вводится понятие ономастический регионализм для более точного описания местных ономастических реалий в контексте региональной лингвистики, указывается на отличие его от термина региональный оним. Этнонимы небольших народов, как правило, не имеют широкого распространения за пределами проживания их носителей, поэтому данные слова можно отнести к ономастическим регионализмам. Именования малых этносов и субэтнических групп России до сих пор мало изучены с точки зрения их регионального компонента, в особенности этнонимы Северо-Востока, в связи с этим данная тема обретает особую актуальность. Этнонимы коренных малочисленных народов Северо-Востока России не рассматривались детально с позиции принадлежности их к дальневосточному региональному ономастикону. В настоящей статье автор останавливается на рассмотрении двух этнонимов одного малочисленного народа Северо-Востока России – чукчей; описываются официальные наименования мужчин и женщин – представителей данного народа с точки зрения принадлежности этнонимов одновременно к литературному языку и региолекту. В основе настоящего исследования лежит теоретическое изучение вопроса отнесения лексических единиц чукча и чукчанка к ономастическим регионализмам. Автор приводит практический пример перехода этнонима чукча из региолекта регионализма в ядро литературного языка и указывает на основные причины того, почему женский дериват данного этнонима, чукчанка, по настоящее время остаётся на периферии и малоизвестен за пределами компактного проживания народа. Regional onomastics is an entangled system that involves names circulating in a specific region, which can be relatively well-known or almost unfamiliar outwards. Today, onomastics is an independent branch of science having as its subject of study both lexemes certainly related to proper names (e. g.: toponyms, hydronyms) and lexemes which lie at the border of propriatives and appellatives, including ethnonyms. Region’s onyms studying helps to find out linguistic links between non-related neighbouring languages, to elicit dialectal features, to discover the places of peoples’ previous habitation, to identify cultural interaction and language borrowings – for that reason this topic is of particular relevance. Regional onyms can be regionalisms from the angle of regional linguistics, insofar as they are representative of a particular locality, but are of little notice or almost unknown beyond of it. This article introduces the concept of onomastic regionalism for clearer description of local onomastic realities in the context of regional linguistics and indicates the difference of onomastic regionalism from the term regional onym. As a rule, ethnonyms of small-numbered peoples do not have wide distribution outside their bearers’ places of residence; for that reason, the author considers them onomastic regionalisms. The study of small ethnic and subethnic groups’ names in Russia it still not sufficient from the point of their regional component, this relates especially to the ethnonyms of the Russian North-East; in that regard, the present topic still abides high relevance of research. The ethnonyms of the Russian North- Eastern indigenous peoples do not have detailed investigation from the position of their involvement in the Far Eastern regional onomasticon. In the present paper the author restrains at investigation of two ethnonyms of one small-numbered people in the Russian North-East – Chukchi; he describes its men and women’s official names, Chukcha and Chukchanka, from the view of the lexical units’ simultaneous attribution to literary language and regiolect. This paper is a theoretical study of the question that the ethnonyms Chukcha and Chukchanka belong to onomastic regionalisms. The author gives a practical example of the Chukcha ethnonym transition from the regiolect to the core of the literary language and gives the reasons why the female derivative of this ethnonym, Chukchanka, remains in the language periphery and of little notice outside Chikchi’s habitat.

scholarly journals THE VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ETHNOCULTURAL COMMUNITIES OF THE NORTH IN THE DOCUMENTARIES (THE FILM OIL FIELD)

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-123
Author(s):  
Elena Valentinovna Golovneva ◽  
Ivan Andreevich Golovnev
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
The North ◽  
Russian North ◽  
The One ◽  
Ethnographic Films ◽  
Khanty Mansi Autonomous

The article investigates the one of types of contemporary visual sources in Anthropology - the ethnographic films about the indigenous peoples of the Russian North. The authors focus on the documentary film Oil Field (Oil Field; Ivan Golovnev 2012) that depicts a life of the family Piak in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra. Focusing on the daily life of a Khanty family, authors develop a narrative structure, in which the protagonist Vasilii Piak received an identity and began to command the viewers’ emotions. Particular attention is paid to the visual representation of the traditional forms of economy (reindeer herding) in Khanty and Nenets culture, including the indigenous people’s relation to nature in the North. Authors consider also the interaction between indigenous peoples and oil companies in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. The paper states that oil development has become the context of contemporary life among northern minorities. On the one hand, oil companies present an environmental and cultural threat to the indigenous inhabitants. On the other hand, they bring important elements of life to the North: fuel, food, roads, work, a system of benefits and other matters which have become part of the local northern reality. Thus, for many Khanty, oil companies are an important source of family income. This is perhaps one of the most difficult moments in situation of the relations of among contemporary northerners, who have already adapted to this tense but mutually advantageous proximity.

scholarly journals SIBERIAN PAPERWORK AND CARTOGRAPHIC SOURCES OF THE TURN OF THE 17th–18th CENTURIES: THE PHENOMENON OF ‘RECOGNISING’ OF NEW TERRITORIES IN THE EMPIRE

2019 ◽  
pp. 165-173
Author(s):  
N.V. Kabakova ◽  
S.N. Korusenko
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Western Siberia ◽  
The Other ◽  
Settlement System ◽  
The South ◽  
Tax Collection ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The One

The present article is aimed at estimating the informative value of the Patrol Book of the Tara District (1701) and the Chorographic Drawing Book of Siberia by Semen U. Remezov. Drawing on the comparative analysis of these documents, the authors consider their presentation of the south of Western Siberia through the settlement system of the Russian and Tatar. The study covers late 17th — early 18th centuries, which is associated with the datings of the studied sources. The Patrol Book was compiled by Ivan R. Kachanov, with the patrol having been ordered by Peter I. The Patrol Book contains statistical and descriptive material, includes information on settle-ments, their inhabitants, as well as various geographical features. Also by the order of Peter I, Semen Remezov created the Chorographic Drawing Book in 1697–1711. It included known data on Siberia and adjacent territories. This source is organised in accordance with the river routes. The Tara District of the Tobolsk Governorate is de-picted on pages 84–93 and 107. The maps contain information similar to that found in the Patrol Book, which provides the opportunity to perform a comparative analysis of these two documents. A total of 48 Russian and 51 Tatar settlements are described in the Patrol Book. The Chorographic Book depicts 65 Russian settlements, three small forts (ostrogs), 79 yurts, 5 towns and 8 Tatarian volosts. The difference in numbers was due to the fact that Ivan Kachanov was to note places of residence, places of tax collection, as well as places to which the authorities allocated pay for service-men. During this period, the population of the Tara District developed new lands and founded new temporary settlements, some of which years later turned into permanent ones. Semen Remezov recorded these settlements, so their number on the map is greater than in Patrol Book. The comparison of the studied documents revealed the inconsistency in the names of many settlements. A comparative analysis and comparison of the content of the sources helped determine settlements having similar names and identify identical settlements having different names. The reason for the unestablished names is that some settlements were named after the surnames of first inhabitants; others were named after geographical objects or other inhabi-tants. For Siberia, both sources, on the one hand, were a sensory, somewhat illusory phenomenon, and on the other, they constituted an experimental perception of the newly included territories.

scholarly journals Particularities of Integration of the Migrants of the North Caucasus Republics in Local Host Environments

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 51-63
Author(s):  
Igor M. Kuznetsov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Status ◽  
Host Population ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
The North ◽  
Level Of Economic Development ◽  
Internal Migrants ◽  
Instrumental Values ◽  
Local Host ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The One

The article discusses the particularities of the integration of internal migrants from North Caucasus republics in the host environments of Russian regions, differing in the level of economic development and the historically established ethnosocial structure of the population. The empirical basis for analysis of the particularities of migrant integration was made up of databases of regional surveys conducted in 2014–2016. The similarities/differences in the interpretation of terminal and instrumental values are the integration criteria in the surveys. Based on the analysis of similarities/differences in the interpretation of terminal value-conscious meanings by representatives of the host population and recent migrants from North Caucasus republics, it is concluded that visitors from the North Caucasus republics are quite integrated into the identification context of the local host environments. Their estimations of the events that are occurring currently in Russia and abroad are scarcely different from the corresponding estimations of the local host environments (and from those of the Russians as a whole). These entrants differ just in stronger adherence to their ethnocultural conventions and customs. Significant differences were found in the interpretation of instrumental values. These differences can on the one hand be explained by the difference in the economic status of a certain host region and the region of the migrants’ outcome, as well as by a more modernized socio-cultural environment of the daily activities of the host regions, regardless of economic status. On the other hand, the given differences are conditioned by the socialization environment which is more traditionalist in the areas of migrants’ outcome. Prospects for the successful integration of migrants from the North Caucasus republics are connected, first, with the development of the spheres of productive economy in the territories of these republics and, second, with the erosion of importance of nationality as social capital in the host territories.

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