Yulian Glebovich Saushkin: creative heritage and modernity

Abstract

The article analyzes the relevance of the publications of Professor Julian GlebovichSaushkin (1911– 1982) in the period from 2000 to 2020 using the national bibliographic database of scientific citation RSCI. The analysis of the general publication activity was carried out, the author’s publications most in demand in the 21st century were identified, and their general characteristics were given. The most in demand are 46 works (45% of the author’s publications presented in the RSCI), which are cited 3 times or more, they account for 98% of the total number of citations. The maximum citation of Saushkin’s publications fell on 6 books (68%), including 5 of them – lifetime. The absolute leader in terms of citation is the fundamental, encyclopedic in content, book «Economic Geography: History, Theory, Methods, Practice», which has not been created in Russian socio-economic geography over the past half century. It was revealed that Yu.G. Saushkin, of course, remains a recognized authority among geographers, primarily in such sections as the history, methodology and theory of geography in general, and socio-economic geography in particular. New trends in geography, reflected in the author’s publications, are still relevant in the 21st century.