Rescaling Russia's Geography: the Challenges of Depopulating the Northern Periphery

It is widely acknowledged that the command economy's geographical legacies hinder Russia's attempts to create an efficient post-Soviet market system. Arguably, given the cost of maintaining them, one of the most problematic bequeathals is the series of relatively overpopulated settlements...

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Published inEurope-Asia studies Vol. 57; no. 5; pp. 705 - 727
Main Author Round, John
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Taylor & Francis Ltd 01.07.2005
Subjects
Center and Periphery
Cities
Depopulation
Economic decline
Economic impact
Economic regions
Economic resources
Elders
Geographic regions
Government
Human geography
Internal migration
Labor Force
Labor Migration
Marginality
Migration policy
Municipal governments
Overpopulation
Population
Population distribution
Population Policy
Post-communist societies
Post-Soviet studies
Postcommunist Societies
Public policy
Regional disparities
Regional identity
Russia
Russian Federation
State-society relations
World Bank
Russia
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Summary:It is widely acknowledged that the command economy's geographical legacies hinder Russia's attempts to create an efficient post-Soviet market system. Arguably, given the cost of maintaining them, one of the most problematic bequeathals is the series of relatively overpopulated settlements along the country's northern periphery. Developed to facilitate the extraction of the region's natural resources, such settlements, as the 'transition' period elongates, are becoming increasingly burdensome for the state owing to their crumbling infrastructures, and growing welfare dependency. With the state having to commit increasing levels of capital to support economically 'non-productive' populations, the need to rationalize such settlements becomes ever more pressing. The emerging literature on the subject is, however, more or less limited to detailing the problems such settlements pose to the state.
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ISSN:0966-8136
1465-3427
DOI:10.1080/09668130500126494