A. N. Pilyasov

• Professor
• Professor (Full) at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Статья посвящена прогнозу развития арктических территорий России на зональном, региональном и муниципальном уровне на основе концепции технико-экономической (укладной) динамики Н. Кондратьева, С. Глазьева и К. Перес. Цель исследования — охарактеризовать технико-экономическую динамику арктических территорий до 2035 г. — определила решение трех задач...

Dear readers! We present to your attention a unique project of a thematic interdisciplinary issue of the journal devoted to modern problems of the development of the Russian Arctic. He brought together a team of several dozen professionals — scientists of different generations, from various fields of humanities (economists, geographers, demographer...

The research question of the article — identifying ways to overcome the single-industry nature of the city of Norilsk — have been concretized by solving the following tasks: to substantiate the “specificness” of Norilsk among the largest Arctic cities of Russia; to determine the role of the agglomeration effect in strengthening the support of Noril...

This article addresses the research question concerning the assessment of current prerequisites for implementing industrial policy within the Arctic territories of Russia through the efforts of local and regional authorities. The research goal required solving methodological problems, including how to evaluate these prerequisites, analytical proble...

The chapter considers the development of domestic reindeer herding in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region over the past 30 years in terms of an entrepreneurial paradigm. Individual reindeer herding families own almost 60% of all domestic reindeer in the region. The chapter describes two types of nomadic entrepreneurs: economically independent and th...

The chapter considers the development of domestic reindeer herding in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region over the past 30 years in terms of an entrepreneurial paradigm. Individual reindeer herding families own almost 60% of all domestic reindeer in the region. The chapter describes two types of nomadic entrepreneurs: economically independent and th...

This article explores the spread of the Covid-19 infection in Russia’s Baltic macro-region. The monthly excess mortality rate in the Baltic region is analysed along with regional and municipal Covid-19 response acts to identify regional features affecting the spread of the disease. The spatial characteristics of Russia’s Baltic regions, germane to...

The article for the first time made an attempt to adapt the theory of technological modes of S. Glazyev and technical and economic paradigms of K. Perez for highly specific conditions of the economic development of the resources of the Russian Arctic (on the basis of its technological dynamics in the industrial and modern era). Based on dozens reso...

The aim (research question) of the paper is to theoretically comprehend and empirically generalize the phenomenon of governance of Russia's Arctic cities in the context of their resilience (resistance to shocks and crises). The main tasks to be solved are: 1) searching for specific indicators to characterize the administrative and managerial system...

The authors consider the concept of peripheral innovation system in the context of the development of natural resources in the Arctic. Russia's resource corporations are its key actors. On the example of the analysis of patent activity of “NovaTEK”, “Norilsk Nickel” and “Gazpromneft”, the differences between Arctic companies in the strategies for o...

Коллективная монография обобщает результаты исследований, выполненные в рамках трехлетнего проекта РФФИ № 18-05-00600 «Новая теория освоения Арктики и Севера: полимасштабный междисциплинарный синтез». Это формирование новых теоретических представлений для адекватного понимания сущности современного процесса хозяйственного освоения Арктики и Севера;...

For a significant period of the twentieth century, the Soviet Union was a leader in the deployment of large-scale and ambitious infrastructure megaprojects in the Arctic. It was here that theoretical ideas about the territorial structures of the regions of new development were elaborated, including the routes − the ground highways and railways of t...

Arctic innovations are considered in a broad context – as a way of life in northern communities with omnipresent technological, economic and social implications. Consideration of innovations reveals a gap in modern research in the social sciences between the numerous works on innovation in large urban agglomerations and the almost complete absence...

In the last 20 years, Russia has embarked on a new development of the Arctic resources. This corporate development is radically different from the Soviet period, being based on other actors and drivers, and forming a different territorial structure.

Considering the widespread of Covid-19 and its impact on the population health in Russian regions, it is necessary to examine the impact of the pandemic (as excess mortality) on the regional socio-economic development in 2020. Based on a quantitative and qualitative model, the study explains the process of coronavirus diffusion at the regional leve...

The moment of truth for regional industrial policy in the Arctic has arrived. At the federal level, the need for an active state policy in the Arctic has been recognized — in recent years, state and private corporations have been implementing a dozen new projects. But there is no clarity in the priorities, directions, versions of the regional indus...

The realities of the Russian Arctic in recent decades make it possible to determine a special phenomenon of corporate development risks, which can be structured into resource, institutional and ecosystem risks. The resource risk reflects the contradiction between the conjuncture of the global resource markets and the specific conditions for the dev...

Scenarios of future development pathways in the Arctic created by groups of experts and stakeholders are an effective way to identify and illustrate possible alternatives and options for this region based on anticipated environmental and socioeconomic changes. Although scenarios that assess development trajectories for the Arctic are becoming incre...

The article describes a new platform business model for the development of natural resources in the Arctic, which had emerged in recent decades and replaced the conveyor model of large industrial mining plants of the Soviet era. Using the example of new resource projects in the Russian Arctic, we analyze its main advantages associated with high ada...

Research question of the paper is how to utilize ecosystem studies to refresh our research of the contemporary Russian Arctic cities, to deepen our understanding of the difference between resilient and sustainable city, and to create methodological approach to measure resilience capacity of the Arctic cities. The article describes three main stages...

Research question of the paper is how to utilize ecosystem studies to refresh our research of the contemporary Russian Arctic cities, to deepen our understanding of the difference between resilient and sustainable city, and to create metho-dological approach to measure resilience capacity of the Arctic cities. The paper describes three main directi...

The relevance of the study is due to the special geostrategic significance for Russia of its Arctic facade - the coastal Arctic. The aim of the study is to strengthen Russia's sovereignty over its Arctic spaces through neutralizing the challenges of the over-uneven development of the municipalities included in the Arctic facade. The information bas...

Four decades after the death of Yu.G. Saushkin as the organizer of Soviet economic geography demand a reassessment of his scientific biography and the role that senior colleagues had played in his creative maturation. First of all, the role of L.S. Berg and the entire school of Russian naturalists, of which he was a representative, in the first per...

The combination of the types of resource projects and the Arctic spaces in which they are deployed gives four main situations for the industrial policy. It should be maximally active and broad in the first case of a greenfield project, which will demand triple innovation: at the stages of production, processing and transportation. The industrial po...

The most important drawback of the modern Federal industrial policy in the Arctic is its narrow character, focused on serving the interests of large resource corporationsand attracting private investmentыin the Arctic. The task is to radically reformatethe industrial policy to make it a real factor in the innovative modernization of the Arctic and...

The article analyzes the phenomenon of the courage of economic decisions in the development of the Arctic. Courage is understood as a feature of contractual behavior - the ability to radically change or propose new terms of the development contract, which leads to dramatic shifts in the territorial, technological and organizational structure of the...

The article presents the results of the development of the Strategy for socioeconomic development of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug until 2030, in which the authors took part. The fundamental difference between the latest oil industry development of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Soviet model is substantiated, and the proximity of the development...

When studying Arctic entrepreneurship, the researcher encounters many paradoxes. Against the background of a powerfully developed topic of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship in regional science, the layer of work on the entrepreneur in the Arctic is extremely thin. What is even worse – well-known mainstream theories turns out to be unsuitable fo...

The article summarizes the results of the analysis of 23 recent projects for the development of Russian Arctic resources in terms of the spatial effects they generate or rely on. It is proved to be the feature of the economic and geographical approach to the analysis of Arctic projects. The most critical change, compared with the realities of the l...

The article discusses the development of domestic reindeer husbandry in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District over the past 30 years in an entrepreneurial paradigm. Inside the “continuum” of nomadic entrepreneurs, a pole of completely economically independent reindeer herders and a pole of entrepreneurs relying entirely on state support are designat...

Participatory scenario methodologies are increasingly used for studying possible future developments in the Arctic. They have the potential to contribute to several high-priority tasks for Arctic research, such as integration of indigenous and local knowledge in futures studies, providing a platform for activating Arctic youth in shaping their futu...

The placement of productive forces, endogenous economic growth and innovative search with creative destruction are the three sources of forming the new economic development theory of the Russian Arctic. From the Soviet school the tradition of linking the process of exploitation with the placement of productive forces was used. From the European reg...

It is proposed to create a new theory of economic development of the North on three primary sources — the Soviet development school, the European school of regional studies, the North American school of frontier studies. Each of these schools relies on a broad conceptual foundation (location of productive forces, endogenous economic growth, innovat...

The subject of this article is the new role of individual mobility in the development of the territories of Siberia and the Far East. The purpose of the study was to justify the importance of a comprehensive study of the phenomenon of mobility as the most important factor in the new economic growth of Siberia and the Far East after using a set of r...

The article establishes the expediency of the formation of Arctic regional science as a new interdisciplinary scientific field. The existing realities of the economic development of Arctic territories cannot always be explained by mainstream economic theories developed for high-density areas of the temperate zone. Rare anomalies that may occur in t...

After the bright achievements of the Soviet development school in the past 30 years, there was a long pause. Meanwhile, the need for a broad scientific generalization of practical efforts to deploy large and small economic projects in the Arctic and the North is enormous. The authors set the task of developing a new complex theory of the North and...

A departure from the legal interpretation of the sovereignty of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation allows one to draw the tools and information resources of other Sciences into studying this concept. The author believes that economic geography can make a significant contribution. An economicgeographical approach to the problem of national so...

The article is dedicated to the relatively new concept of proximity. Emerging at the turn of the century in European regional science (economic geography and regional economics), this concept relies on a long-standing tradition of spatial studies (ranging from J. Thünen’s works to regional cluster and urban agglomeration studies). Proximity focuses...

В коллективной монографии рассматриваются современные тенденции и механизм согласования государственных и корпоративных интересов в Арктике. Особое внимание уделено инновационным векторам экономического развития корпораций и арктических регионов. Разработаны механизм и порядок согласования целей, приоритетов и задач государственной, региональной и...

The problem of single-industry towns has become increasingly relevant recently in light of the crises in the Russian and global economy. The present article attempts to examine this issue by using methodological approaches adopted internationally to analyse single-industry towns. At the heart of these approaches is the concept of path dependence, c...

The paper demonstrates the contradictions and paradoxes of Russia’s Transpolar territories, related to transformation of the Arctic from a global periphery to a global frontier. The first paradox is the strong contrasts between the poles of poverty and wealth in light of the fact that Russia is the absolute champion of GRP produced in the Arctic. O...

The results of studies of the formation of Arctic policies and Arctic strategies of different countries under the conditions of globalization and climate change, as well as geopolitical and economic trends, are presented. The positions of the Arctic countries are shown on the basis of the analysis of a composite index, which characterizes their res...

The article specifies the main ideas of the concept of scientific revolutions by T. Kuhn on the example of knowledge transfer between V. Vernadsky and L. Gumilyov. It examines the mechanism of embeddedness of the new idea in the dynamics of two generations of scientists, that is for the 50year period. The intellectual impact of V. Vernadsky for L....

The article specifies the main ideas of the concept of scientific revolutions by T. Kuhn on the example of knowledge transfer between V. Vernadsky and L. Gumilyov. It examines the mechanism of embeddedness of the new idea in the dynamics of two generations of scientists, that is for the 50-year period. The intellectual impact of V. Vernadsky for L....

This article examines dynamics of penetration of Internet domains in the Russian regions and interregional contrasts in the territorial distribution of this indicator. Interregional contrasts in the distribution of "new economy" indicators are compared with the contrasts in the territorial distribution of traditional indicators of GRP per capita, p...

In this article the author examines theoretical preconditions, major ingredients and applicability of the models of new economic geography (NEG) - that is the concept elaborated in the 1990-s by Paul Krugman who was Nobel prize winner in economics in 2008. The author demonstrates P. Krugman's role in enrichment of the contemporary theories of econo...

Economic parameters for the towns of the Russian Arctic are compared. Typology of "polar towns" is suggested and the main lines of restructuring for each group are identified.

This work reflects the results from the cycle of research done in 2001-2004 for 20 Russian regions. At the end of it it was possible to generalize the regularities of the initial stage of transition which were characteristic for the Russian regions on their move from industrial to network model of economic development; compare Russian experience wi...

One of unexpected results of the economic reform in Russia was the rebirth of interest for regional programs and schemes as documents of strategic planning. Regional and municipal authorities, scientific community (not only Keynesian-like, but liberal economist Friedman-style as well), big and small business community, and civil society structures,...

A problem of forming of a new notion complex of economic geography is discussed in the article. It is proposed that it can be created not by radical break, but by re-orientation of the old one, usual base categories of our science with the aim of their adequancy to the conditions of market economy. Final way of this intellectual transformation is d...

First years of the economic growth of the Russian economy on one side, and the enlargement of the European Union on the other side, create mych more similarities in the cohesion policy of both entities now than in the 1990-s. Russian Federation is experiencing the shift from the dominance of the operating transfers in the investment transfers as th...

After a decade of reform contrasts between regions in Russia in per resident regional gross product and per resident real income have increased essentially. The challenge to smooth these inequalities is one of the high priorities for the contemporary Russian federal regional policy. For this purpose in the year 2001 federal program of diminishing i...

Geographically separated by only 64 km, the Siberian Yupik-speaking communities of Gambell and Novoye Chaplino have endured a politically mandated separation of 40 years. During this period these two small, native comm unities have experienced enormous changes, changes often engendered by the social and economic policies of their nation states. The...