Title of the article

Socio-Economic Development of Rural Sparsely Populated Areas in Russia: Legal Challenges of the Present

 Authors 

Ol'ga A. Dement'eva — Expert, Public Organization «Interdisciplinary Research of Complex Systems» (MICS), Candidate of Law, 4А Sokolnicheskaya Square, Moscow, 107113, Russia, deola@mail.ru

 Category 

LEGAL POLICY OF THE STATE: THEORY, HISTORY, PRACTICE

Year,.Volume, Number 

2020, Vol. 8, № 3 (31)

 Pages 

20-27

 Article type 

Original article

 Index UDK 

342

 DOI 

10.21685/2307-9525-2020-8-3-3

 Abstract 

TThe article presents an analysis of the state of rural sparsely populated territories of the Russian Federation as one of the main components in ensuring the stability of the settlement system. The results of analysis of some sections of strategic planning documents regarding implementation of the state policy of support and development of rural sparsely populated areas are presented. The transition in the Russian Federation to a new economic structure in the last decade of the last century, characterized by the curtailment of economic ac-tivities in a number of sectors traditional for rural and non-large urban settle-ments, had a negative impact both on the population of these settlements and on the possibility of maintaining the sustainability of the settlement system as a whole. Those processes were being strengthened in some constituent entities of the Russian Federation by ongoing "transformations" of the territorial structure of local self-government, accompanied by the loss of the status of municipal units by rural territories, which entailed further degradation of those territories. There was a need to adjust strategic planning documents, especially the Spatial Development Strategy, in terms of public support not only for agglomera-tions, but also for sparsely populated areas.

 Keywords 

sparsely populated areas, rural settlements, agglomerations, distribution patterns, population exoduses, strategic planning documents

 Download PDF

References

1. Alekseev A. I., Safronov S. G. Changes in Rural Settlement Patterns in Russia During the Late 20th - Early 21st Centures. Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Seriia 5. Geo-grafiia = Moscow University Bulletin. Series 5, Geography, 2015, no. 2, pp. 66-76 (in Russian).
2. Glezer O., Polian P. Rossiia i ee regiony v XX veke: territoriia - rasselenie - migratsii : monografiia [Russia and its Regions in the XX Century: Territory - Settlement - Migration: Monograph]. Moscow, OGI Publ., 2005, 816 p.
3. Mel'nikova L. V. Geographical neo-determinism, spatial misallocation and Zipf's law. EKO = ECO, 2011, no. 2 (440), pp. 137-146 (in Russian).
4. Dement'ev A. N. Territorial'naia organizatsiia mestnogo samoupravleniia v Rossiiskoi Federatsii (1990-2018 gody): monografiia [Territorial Organization of Local Self-Government in the Russian Federation (1990-2018): Monograph]. Moscow, Norma Publ., 2020, 230 p.
5. Dement'ev V. S. Optimization of Administrative – Territorial Division in the Pskov Region: Assessment of Consequences. Geograficheskii vestnik = Geographical Gazette, 2019, no. 1 (48), pp. 14-25 (in Russian). DOI 10.17072/2079-7877-2019-1-15-25.
6. Nikiforov A. V. Obshchestvenno-politicheskaia polemika po voprosu o sotsial'nykh posledstviiakh suburbanizatsii v SShA vo vtoroi polovine 40-kh – 50-e gg. XX v.: avtoref. dis. ... kand. ist. nauk : 07.00.03 [Socio-Political Controversy on the Social Consequences of Suburbanization in the United States in the second half of the 40s - 50s. XX centures: abstract of diss. of cand. of history]. Moscow, 2000, 28 p.
7. Shugrina E. S. Models of Russian Agglomerations Management. Gosudarstvennaia vlast' i mestnoe samoupravlenie = State Power and Local Self-government, 2018, no. 2, pp. 39-43 (in Russian).
8. Shugrina E. S., Mironova G. V. General characteristic of Russian agglomerations: ratio dejuro and defacto. Mestnoe pravo = Local Law, 2018, no. 1, pp. 3-24 (in Russian).
9. Petukhov R. V., Lutsenko E. V. Legal Regulation of Agglomerations: Theoretical Approaches and Foreign Practices. Mestnoe pravo = Local Law, 2017, no. 6, pp. 93-102 (in Russian).
10. Lisina N. L. Review of Issues of Legal Environmental Protection in Cities: a Methodo-logical Aspect. Ekologicheskoe pravo = Environmental Law, 2018, no. 4, pp. 24-29 (in Russian).
11. Degtiarev P. Ia. Enclosive Disposition of Spatial Development of Russia. Vestnik Cheliabinskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta = CSU Bulletin, 2018, no. 7 (417), pp. 67-73 (in Russian).
12. Mel'nikova L. V. Sizes of the Cities, Efficiency and Economic Growth. EKO = ECO, 2017, no. 7 (517), pp. 5-19 (in Russian).
13. Mazaev A. G. Domestic Experience of Optimization of the National System of Settlement. Akademicheskii vestnik Uralniiproekt RAASN = Academic Bulletin Uralniiproekt RAASN, 2017, no. 3 (34), pp. 20-25 (in Russian).

For citation

Dement'eva O.A. Socio-Economic Development of Rural Sparsely Populated Areas in Russia: Legal Challenges of the Present. Electronic scientific journal «Science. Society. State», 2020, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 20-27, available at: http://esj.pnzgu.ru. DOI: 10.21685/2307-9525-2020-8-3-3. (In Russian).