Species of the genus Notaris Germar, 1817 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) from Siberia and Russian Far East

Seven described species (N. (Erirhinus) aethiops (Paykull, 1792), N. (Asionotaris) eversmanni Faust, 1882, N. (A.) altaica (Legalov, 1997), N. (N.) acridulus (Linnaeus, 1758), N. (N.) daurica Faust, 1882, N. (N.) oryzae (Ishida, 1902), and N. (N.) scirpi (Fabricius, 1792) with two subspecies: N. (N.) scirpi scirpi (Fabricius, 1792) and N. (N.) scirpi mandschurica Voss, 1940) of the genus Notaris Germar, 1817 are known from Siberia and the Russian Far East. The distributions of these species are specified. There are the first records of N. (Erirhinus) aethiops for Republic of Khakassia, N. (Asionotaris) eversmanni for Sakhalin Is., N. (N.) acridulus for Altai Krai and Jewish Autonomous Oblast, N. (N.) scirpi scirpi for Irkutsk Oblast and N. (N.) scirpi mandschurica for Zabaikalskii Krai. A new subgenus Asionotaris subgen. n. (type species – Erirhinus altaicus Legalov, 1997) of the genus Notaris is described. Keys for subgenera of the genus Notaris and species of this genus from Siberia and the Russian Far East are completed. Distribution maps of the considered Notaris species are given.

School philological education: traditions and innovations in the organization of home work.

the article actualizes students’ homework as a form of independent learning, traditional and innovative methods of which are actively used in the practice of school philological education. The author provides a brief historical and pedagogical analysis of methodological and pedagogical opinions of classical and modern researchers about homework as a mandatory element of homework. The author in the historical and pedagogical context reveals some methodological regulations on homework, homework assignments. Based on an original scientific and methodological work, the author shows the features of homework assignments developed and tested in educational organizations of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. National and regional content in this is the basis of the presented forms of domestic work, which contribute not only to the realization of educational functions of teaching process in general and literary education in particular, but also form the socio-cultural and ethno-cultural values of students in multiethnic Jewish Autonomous Oblast. The author emphasizes the need for a modern scientific rethinking of views on homework, including taking into account the features and capabilities of e-learning and IT technologies in the field of education. The author's didactic and pedagogical conclusions and methodological examples suggest the possibility and need for further research on the functions, meanings, technologies, didactic and pedagogical effects of homework and homework, including in the subject-methodical refraction.

Social Efficiency Indicators of Public Investment: The Case of the Far Eastern Regions

The article provides estimates of the social discount rate and regional welfare weights for the Russian Far East territories. The key parameter for their calculations is the elasticity of the marginal utility of consumption, estimated for the Russian Federation as a whole on the basis of the consumer demand function for food products. It’s revealed that for different territories should be applied different social discount rates for to assess the social effects of projects with state participation. The reason is that territories differ in the quality of life, which can be traced through interregional differences in the level and dynamic of the domestic consumer market as well as the size and structure of household income and expenditure. The social discount rate is sensitive to the future annual growth rate of household consumption in the region. If we take the actual average annual rates for 2000–2018 as forecast values, the Sakhalin Oblast has the highest social discount rate (12 per cent), and the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug has the lowest rate (7.6 per cent). Regional welfare weights show how the regions of the Far East are ranked according to the degree of impact of public investment on marginal changes in the welfare of their households. Thus, the lowest marginal increase in welfare in the Far Eastern Federal District will be observed in the Sakhalin Region, followed by the Khabarovsk Territory. From the social efficiency point this casts doubt on the choice of these regions as priority locations for large-scale public projects. On the other hand the largest effect of public projects for the improving of welfare will be observed in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and the Zabaikalsky Krai. These regions are characterized by the highest values of regional welfare weights in the Far East for 2018, and consequently the highest marginal welfare growth for households due to public investment. It is worth noting that in 2010 the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and Kamchatsky Krai were characterized by the highest values of the regional welfare weights in the Far East. By 2018 these two regions significantly improved their positions. Despite the fact that the regional welfare weights for most of the Far Eastern regions decreased significantly, for the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and the Zabaikalsky Krai this decrease was minimal (2 per cent and 5 per cent respectively)