{"title":"Declining towns in Russia, 1989-1993.","authors":"R. Rowland","doi":"10.1080/10605851.1995.10641001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10605851.1995.10641001","url":null,"abstract":"This \"article based on data for the last census of the former USSR and population estimates for 1993 for urban places of over 15,000 population in the Russian Federation surveys the regional distribution, economic functions, and size characteristics of urban settlements in Russia with declining population over the period 1989-93. Interesting comparisons are drawn with patterns prevailing during previous periods, revealing recent increases in the number of such towns in major manufacturing regions and the North and an increase in the number of large cities. Towns experiencing the very greatest percentage declines (-10.0 percent or more) also are investigated.\"","PeriodicalId":85331,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography","volume":"36 7 1","pages":"436-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10605851.1995.10641001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59717861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Declining towns in Russia, 1989-1993.","authors":"R H Rowland","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This \"article based on data for the last census of the former USSR and population estimates for 1993 for urban places of over 15,000 population in the Russian Federation surveys the regional distribution, economic functions, and size characteristics of urban settlements in Russia with declining population over the period 1989-93. Interesting comparisons are drawn with patterns prevailing during previous periods, revealing recent increases in the number of such towns in major manufacturing regions and the North and an increase in the number of large cities. Towns experiencing the very greatest percentage declines (-10.0 percent or more) also are investigated.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":85331,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography","volume":"36 7","pages":"436-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22040260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Economic transition and demographic change in Russia, 1989-1995.","authors":"T Heleniak","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The author \"reviews recent population changes in Russia, relating trends in fertility, mortality, natural increase, and migration to the social and economic effects of the transition to a market economy. Significant trends (a precipitous drop in fertility, an extraordinary increase in mortality--especially among middle-aged males--and a consequent decline in natural increase) are identified and analyzed, with dislocations caused by the uncertainties of economic and political transition suggested as the principal causes. The effect of net in-migration to Russia (probably mainly ethnic Russians from the Near Abroad countries) in partially offsetting the natural population decrease is examined as well.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":85331,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography","volume":"36 7","pages":"446-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22040261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resource Rent from the Oil and Gas Sector and the Russian Economy","authors":"M. J. Sagers, V. Kryukov, V. Shmat","doi":"10.1080/10605851.1995.10640999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640999","url":null,"abstract":"Three specialists on Russia's oil and gas sector examine the process whereby resource rent has been extracted from oil and gas production and distributed within the Soviet (and later Russian) econo...","PeriodicalId":85331,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography","volume":"36 1","pages":"389-425"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640999","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59717806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prospects for the Disintegration of the Russian Federation","authors":"R. Kaiser","doi":"10.1080/10605851.1995.10641000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10605851.1995.10641000","url":null,"abstract":"The author examines a series of sociocultural, ethnographic, and socioeconomic indices for the Russian Federation's constituent ethnic-based territorial units to assess prospects for the country's disintegration along ethnoterritorial lines. The sociocultural indices feature measures of linguistic russification, intermarriage, and assimilation; the ethnodemographic ones, measures of relative demographic weight; and the socioeconomic ones, various measures of urbanization, education, and occupational status. Dimensions of a “North-South” divide with respect to national consciousness, resistance to assimilation, and desire for independence/autonomy are investigated. 1 table, 19 references.","PeriodicalId":85331,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography","volume":"8 1","pages":"426-435"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10605851.1995.10641000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59717818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Environmental Security and Shared Water Resources in Post-Soviet Central Asia","authors":"David R. Smith","doi":"10.1080/10605851.1995.10640997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640997","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the distribution of water and the location of physical and political boundaries in Central Asia, identifies indicators of the susceptibility of its various regions to resource and water-related conflict, and then applies those indicators to discover the potential for future water-based regional conflict. The dimensions of the problem are addressed not only in terms of the physical availability of water (or lack of same), but also water quality and regional social unrest as a consequence of migration from regions of environmental deterioration. 5 figures, 4 tables, 45 references.","PeriodicalId":85331,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography","volume":"103 1","pages":"351-370"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640997","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59718239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Geographical Impact of the Russian Privatization Program","authors":"I. Filatotchev, R. Bradshaw","doi":"10.1080/10605851.1995.10640998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640998","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines privatization of state assets, a key element in the process of Russia's economic transformation. In particular, it assesses the spatial impacts of providing each Russian citizen with a voucher that can be used to purchase shares in enterprises undergoing privatization. A focus is on documenting a geographic shift in benefits from voucher-based privatization, initially accruing disproportionally to residents of the Urals and West and East Siberia, and later passing on to urbanized western Russia, where greater levels of investment may be expected in new financial centers such as Moscow, St. Petersburg, and, to a lesser extent, Yekaterinburg. 3 maps, 1 table, 19 references.","PeriodicalId":85331,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography","volume":"36 1","pages":"371-384"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640998","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59718250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Belarus' Ten Years After Chernobyl'","authors":"David R. Marples","doi":"10.1080/10605851.1995.10640996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640996","url":null,"abstract":"A recognized world authority on the history and consequences of the 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl' nuclear power plant examines the present impact of the accident on the economy and society of Belarus'. An initial section focuses on the geography of radioactive contamination within the republic, followed by sections on evacuation procedures and official programs of assistance, living conditions within the contaminated zone, and the role played by international charitable institutions vis-a-vis the government in providing long-term assistance to those seriously affected by the accident. Political considerations underlying the involvement of government and grassroots organizations in Chernobyl' assistance programs are explored. 1 table, 1 figure, 32 references.","PeriodicalId":85331,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography","volume":"36 1","pages":"323-350"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640996","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59718202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Russia's Environment and Natural Resources in Light of Economic Regionalization","authors":"D. J. Peterson","doi":"10.1080/10605851.1995.10640994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640994","url":null,"abstract":"A specialist on environmental policy and problems in Russia and the states of the former Soviet Union assesses the current state of the environment, emerging environmental problems, and possible future developments in Russia's regions as a result of increasing regional differentiation brought about by the varied impacts of economic reform and restructuring in Russia. Particular attention is devoted to the environmental ramifications of regional economic specialization (e.g., raw materials vs. finished goods production), privatization, reduction in state subsidies and investment, incipient domestic mass consumption, character of future urban/suburban development, and the role of exports to world markets. 3 tables, 36 references.","PeriodicalId":85331,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography","volume":"36 1","pages":"291-309"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640994","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59718155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Russian Forest Sector: Production, Consumption, and Export Prospects","authors":"C. Backman","doi":"10.1080/10605851.1995.10640995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640995","url":null,"abstract":"The forest sector of Russia is described at the country level of detail, including a description of the growth of the forest resource over time and of the historical utilization of the forest resource, with a focus on the shares of output allocated for domestic consumption and for export. The resource available for the future then is presented in terms of economic accessibility. Longer-term export opportunities are identified using a scenario analysis generated by the Russian Forest Sector Assessment Model. 14 figures, 12 references.","PeriodicalId":85331,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography","volume":"36 1","pages":"310-322"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10605851.1995.10640995","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59718192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}