The marine component of human geography studies in Post-Soviet Russia: key trends and development priorities
Abstract
Originated in the 1960s, the ‘marine branch’ of Soviet, and later Russian, economic and social geography contributed to the diversification of geographical science and expanded its scope. The new branch was a product of the rapid growth of the marine economy and the country’s military infrastructure and settlement system starting to gravitate towards the world ocean. This article uses bibliographical and scientometric materials to explore the factors, features and priorities of the development of Russian post-Soviet human geography of the world ocean. Special attention is paid to the path dependence in the evolution of this branch of geography (associated with the established professional community, the fundamental research themes and the basic concepts) and the emergence of new growth poles within the scope of marine human geography. Although this subdiscipline showed a high degree of resilience in the first years after the demise of the USSR, it became marginalised from the scientific mainstream. The interest in marine studies revived only in the early 2000s, gaining momentum after a decade of desolation. The renaissance was due to new transboundary marine research, analyses of the geopolitical and geoeconomic aspects of the marine economy and close attention given to coastal border areas (particularly the prospects and risks of their socio-economic development within the continent-ocean dichotomy). The marine focus of Russia’s geostrategy will generate steady demand for national human geography of the world ocean, including its inevitable humanities component. Another trend is the involvement of human social geography in cross-branch geographical synthesis. The study also identifies Russian research and publication centre of excellence in marine human geography.
1. Saushkin, Yu. G. 1980, Geograficheskaya nauka v proshlom, nastoyashchem, budushchem [Geographical science in the past, present, and future, Moscow, Enlightenment], 269 p. (in Russ.).
2. Bordachev, T. 2021, When Russia will become indifferent to neighbors, VZGLYAD, August 13, 2021, available at: https://vz.ru/opinions/2021/8/13/1113574.html (accessed 8.11.2021) (in Russ.).
3. Barabanov, O., Bordachev, T., Lisovolik, Ya., Lukyanov, F., Sushentsov, A., Timofeev, I. 2018, Zhizn’ v osypayushchemsya mire [Life in a crumbling world], Report of the Valdai International Discussion Club, October 2018, 25 p. available at: https://ru.valdaiclub.com/files/22596/ (accessed 8.11.2021) (in Russ.).
4. Kuznetsov, B. G. 1972, Filosofiya optimizma [Philosophy of optimism], Moscow, Mysl, 358 p. (in Russ.).
5. Salnikov, S. S. 1984, Economic geography of the ocean — a new promising direction of economic and social geography, Sovetskaya geografiya [Soviet Geography], L., Nauka, p. 231— 242. (in Russ.).
6. Druzhinin, A. G. 2016, “Marine component” of Russian social geography: traditions and innovations, Regional Research of Russia, p. 10—19.
7. Gorshkov, S. G. 1976, Morskaya moshch’ gosudarstva [The sea power of the state], M., Voenizdat, 416 p. (in Russ.).
8. Druzhinin, A. G. 2020, Eurasian Vectors of Maritime Economic Activity of Russia, Geogr. Nat. Resour., no. 41, p. 99—107.
9. Alkhimenko, A. P. 2005, The marine economic complex of Russia: development trends and problems. In: Morekhozyaistvennyi kompleks Rossii [Marine economic complex of Russia], St. Petersburg, p. 5—23 (in Russ.).
10. Dergachev, V. A. 2021, Zoning of the World Ocean against the “dry law” in geography. In: Katrovsky, A. P., Shuvalov, V. E., Agirrechu, A. A. (eds.) Sotsial’no-ekonomicheskaya geografiya: istoriya, teoriya, metody, praktika [Socio-economic geography: history, theory, methods, practice], collection of scientific articles, Smolensk, Publishing House of Smolensk State University, p. 91— 98 (in Russ.).
11. Saushkin, Yu. G. 1973, Ekonomicheskaya geografiya: istoriya, teoriya, metody, praktika [Economic geography: history, theory, methods, practice], Moscow, Mysl, 559 p.
12. Kolosov, V. A., Mironenko, N. S., Petrov, N. V., Trayvish, A. I. 1996, Russian public geography of the first half of the 90s, Regional Research of Russia, no. 3, p. 17— 27 (in Russ.).
13. Romanenko, A. 1999, Maritime shipping and shipbuilding on the way to the XXI century. In: Mirovoi okean na poroge XXI veka [The world Ocean on the threshold of the XXI century], St. Petersburg, RGO, p. 103—128 (in Russ.).
14. Alekseev, A. P., Nikonorov, S. I. 2005, Geograficheskaya sreda kak faktor razvitiya pribrezhnogo rybolovstva i marikul’tury [Geographical environment as a factor in the development of coastal fishing and mariculture], St. Petersburg, RGO, 178 p. (in Russ.).
15. Titova, G. D. 2003, Krizis mirovogo rybolovstva: ekonomicheskie i pravovye problemy [The crisis of world fisheries: economic and legal problems], St. Petersburg, RGO, 77 p. (in Russ.).
16. Ivchenko, V. V. 2008, The fishing industry complex of Kaliningrad: from stagnation to revival, Vestnik RGU im. I. Kant. Seriya: Ekonomicheskie i yuridicheskie nauki [Bulletin of the I. Kant Russian State University. Economic and Legal Sciences], no. 3, p. 63—68 (in Russ.).
17. Matrusov, N. D. 1992, On the development of the primorsky regions of Russia in modern conditions. In: Regional’naya organizatsiya i upravlenie morekhozyaistvennymi kompleksami strany [Regional organization and management of marine economic complexes of the country], Saint Petersburg, Russk. Geographical region, p. 50—52 (in Russ.).
18. Pustovgarov, V. I. 2004, Prostranstvennoe planirovanie ustoichivogo razvitiya primorskoi rekreatsionnoi zony Kaliningradskoi oblasti [Spatial planning of sustainable development of the primorsky recreational zone of the Kaliningrad region], PhD Thes., Kaliningrad, 178 p. (in Russ.).
19. Druzhinin, A. G. 2004, Economic potential of the Primorsky zone: conceptual and terminological foundations of the concept, Izvestiya vuzov. Severo-Kavkazskii region. Obshchestvennye nauki [Izvestiya vuzov. The North Caucasus region. Social sciences], no. 4, p. 38—47 (in Russ.).
20. Geografiya mirovogo okeana i kartografiya. Trudy XI s”ezda Russkogo geograficheskogo obshchestva [Geography of the world ocean and cartography. Proceedings of the XI Congress of the Russian Geographical Society], 2000, Vol. 3. XI Congress of the Russian Geographical Society, Arkhangelsk, 2000, abstracts, St. Petersburg, RGO, 205 p. (in Russ.).
21. Alkhimenko, A. P., Tsvetkov, V. Yu. 2002, Baltiiskoe more: Mezhdunarodnyi prirodno-khozyaistvennyi region [The Baltic Sea: International natural and economic region], St. Petersburg, RGO, 45 p. (in Russ.).
22. Alkhimenko, A. P. (ed.) 2007, Severnyi morskoi put’: sostoyanie, problemy, perspektivy [The Northern Sea Route: state, problems, prospects], Russian Geographical Area, North-Western Research Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage, St. Petersburg, 223 p. (in Russ.).
23. Baklanov, P. Ya., Moshkov, A. V. 2021, Economic and geographical studies at the Pacific Institute of Geography, Tikhookeanskaya geografiya [Pacific Geography], no. 1 (5), p. 6—20 (in Russ.).
24. Druzhinin, A. 2019, The sea factor in the spatial and socio-economic dynamics of today’s Russia, Quaestiones Geographicae, vol. 38, no. 2, Boducki Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Poznań, p. 91—100.
25. Mironenko, N. S. (ed.) 2008, Obshchestvenno-geograficheskie problemy osvoeniya prostranstva i resursov mirovogo okeana [Socio-geographical problems of the development of space and resources of the world ocean], Moscow, Aspect Press, 192 p. (in Russ.).
26. Bezrukov, L. A. 2008, Kontinental’no-okeanicheskaya dikhotomiya v mezhdunarodnom i regional’nom razvitii [Continental-oceanic dichotomy in international and regional development], Novosibirsk, Academic publishing house “Geo”, 369 p.
27. Gogoberidze, G. G. 2007, Kompleksnoe raionirovanie primorskikh territorii Mirovogo okeana [Complex zoning of the coastal territories of the World Ocean], St. Petersburg, Publishing house of RGGMU, 396 p. (in Russ.).
28. Baklanov, P. Ya. 2015, Pacific Russia: geographical and geopolitical factors of development, Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya, no. 5, p. 8—19. (in Russ.).
29. Kotlyakov, V. M., Baklanov, P. Ya. 2020, Sovremennaya Rossiya: geograficheskoe opisanie nashego Otechestva. Dal’nii Vostok [Modern Russia: geographical description of our Fatherland. The Far East], Moscow, Paulsen, 237 p. (in Russ.).
30. Pilyasov, A. N. 2010, Arctic Mediterranean: prerequisites for the formation of a new macroregion, ECO, no. 12, p. 54—75 (in Russ.).
31. Druzhinin, A. G. (ed.) 2016, Sotsial’no-ekonomicheskoe razvitie primorskikh territorii Evropeiskoi chasti Rossii: faktory, trendy, modeli [Socio-economic development of the coastal territories of the European part of Russia: factors, trends, models], Rostov-on-Don, Publishing House of the Southern Federal University, 236 p. (in Russ.).
32. Druzhinin, A. G., Klemeshev A. P., Fedorov G. M. et al. 2018, Primorskie zony Rossii na Baltike: faktory, osobennosti, perspektivy i strategii transgranichnoi klasterizatsii [Coastal zones of Russia in the Baltic: factors, features, prospects and strategies of cross-border clustering], Ser. Scientific thought of the Baltic Federal University, Moscow,”INFRA-M”, 216 p. (in Russ.).
33. Kuznetsova, O. V. 2019, Trade-offs of spatial development priorities choice, Voprosy Ekonomiki, no. 1, p. 146—157. doi: https://doi.org/ 10.32609/0042-8736-2019-1-146-157.
34. Shelest, K. D. 2004, Baltic transport corridors and Russian geo-economic interests, Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Geology. Geography, no. 3, p. 88—93 (in Russ.).
35. Orlova, V. G. 2012, Port-industrial zones: conditions and sources of development, Izvestiya Yuzhnogo federal’nogo universiteta. Tekhnicheskie nauki [Izvestiya of the Southern Federal University. Technical sciences], no. 8 (133), p. 115—120 (in Russ.).
36. Druzhinin, A. G., Lachininskii, S. S. 2021, Russia in the World Ocean: Interests and Lines of Presence, Regional Research of Russia, vol. 11, no. 3, p. 336—348.
37. Pototskaya, T. I. 2018, The geopolitical aspect of the modern transport and geographical position of Russia, Regional Research of Russia, no. 3, p. 5—17.
38. Lachininskii, S. S., Shendrik, A. V. Vasilyeva, V. A. 2020, Shipbuilding industry in the North-Western Federal District: factors and priorities of development, localization features, Ekonomika Severo-Zapada: problemy i perspektivy razvitiya [The economy of the North-West: problems and prospects of development], no. 2—3 (61—62), p. 134— 140 (in Russ.).
39. Alexandrova, T. E. 2010, Morskaya infrastruktura Rossii: teoriya, osnovnye etapy razvitiya, problemy [Marine infrastructure of Russia: theory, main stages of development, problems], St. Petersburg, Avroradesign, 352 p. (in Russ.).
40. Baturova, G. V. 2012, Regional marine clusters as the basis of socio-economic development of coastal territories, Transportnoe delo Rossii [Transport business of Russia], no. 6(2), p. 40—42 (in Russ.).
41. Druzhinin, A. G. 2017, Transgranichnoe klasteroobrazovanie v primorskikh zonakh Evropeiskoi chasti Rossii: faktory, modeli, ekonomicheskie i ekisticheskie effekty [Cross-border cluster formation in the coastal zones of the European part of Russia: factors, models, economic and economic effects], Rostov-on-Don, Southern Federal University Press, 421 p. (in Russ.).
42. Fedorov, G. M., Zverev, Yu. M., Korneevets, V. S. 2008, Rossiya na Baltike: 1990—2007 gg. [Russia in the Baltic: 1990—2007], Kaliningrad, Publishing House of the I. Kant Russian State University (in Russ.).
43. Slevich, S. B. 1989, Political geography of the ocean: questions of theory. In: Politicheskaya geografiya i sovremennost’: tendentsii stanovleniya nauchnogo napravleniya [Political geography and modernity: trends in the formation of a scientific direction], L., Nauka, p. 78—86 (in Russ.).
44. Korzun, V. A. 2005, Interesy Rossii v Mirovom okeane v novykh geopoliticheskikh usloviyakh [Russia’s interests in the World Ocean in new geopolitical conditions], Moscow, Nauka, 522 p. (in Russ.).
45. Bezrukov, L. A. 2015, Political-geographical problems of delimitation of Russia’s North and Arctic, Geography and Natural Resources, vol. 36, no. 4 p. 358—368. doi: https://doi.org/ 10.1134/S187537281504006X.
46. Baklanov, P. Ya., Romanov, M. T. 2013, The marine component of the geopolitical situation of Pacific Russia, Ustoichivoe prirodopol’zovanie v pribrezhno-morskikh zonakh [Sustainable nature management in coastal-marine zones], Materials of the international conference, p. 25—27 (in Russ.).
47. Makhno, D. E. 2014, The Coastal Regions of Europe: Economic Development at the Turn of the 20th Century, Balt. Reg., no. 4, p. 50—66. doi: 10.5922/2074-2079-8555-4-4.
48. Fedorov, G. M., Korneevets, V. S. 2015, Socioeconomic typology of Russia’s coastal regions, Balt. Reg., no. 4, p. 89—101. doi: https://doi.org/ 1010.5922/2079-8555-2015-4-7.
49. Druzhinin, A. G. 2020, The strongholds of Russian coastal borderlands: economic dynamics amid geopolitical turbulence, Balt. Reg., vol. 12, no. 3, p. 89—104. doi: https://doi.org/ 10.5922/2079-8555-2020-3-6.
50. Volkhin, D. A. 2016, “Primorsky factor” of socio-economic and demographic dynamics of the Crimea, Sotsial’no-ekonomicheskaya geografiya. Vestnik Assotsiatsii rossiiskikh geografov-obshchestvovedov [Socio-economic geography. Bulletin of the Association of Russian Geographers and Social Scientists], no. 5, p. 154—169 (in Russ.).
51. Khudoley, K. K. 2016, The Baltic Sea region and increasing international tension, Balt. Reg., no. 1, p. 4—16. doi: https://doi.org/ 10.5922/2079-8555-2016-1-1.
52. Fedorov, G. M., Kuznetsova, T. Yu., Razumovsky, V. M. 2017, The influence of the proximity of the sea on the development of the economy and settlement of the Kaliningrad region, Regional Research of Russia, vol. 149, no. 3, p. 15—31.
53. Shmatkov, A. V. 2013, Centers of marine economic activity in the Arctic zone of Russia, Ekonomika i predprinimatel’stvo [Economics and entrepreneurship], no. 3 (32), p. 93—97 (in Russ.).
54. Vardomsky, L. B. 2019, The Northern Sea Route as a mechanism for ensuring the connectivity of Greater Eurasia, Mir peremen [The World of Change], no. 2, p. 129—140 (in Russ.).
55. Lazhentsev, V. N. 2015, Socio-economic geography and interdisciplinary synthesis in the study of the North and the Arctic of Russia, Prostranstvennaya ekonomika [Spatial Economics], no. 4, p. 117—130 (in Russ.).
56. Baklanov, P. Ya. 2020, Territory of advanced development as a link of territorial socio-economic systems in their dynamics, Tikhookeanskaya geografiya [Pacific geography], vol. 4, no. 4, p. 14—24 (in Russ.).
57. Lachininskii, S. S., Sorokin, I. S., Mikhaylov, A. S., Samusenko, D. N., Mikhaylova, A. A. 2019, Coastal cities and aglomeration in the innovative stace of western Russia, Regional Research of Russia, vol. 9, no. 4, p. 396—405.
58. Mikhaylov, A. S. 2019, Coastal agglomerations and the transformation of national innovation spaces, Balt. Reg., no. 1, p. 29—42. doi: https://doi.org/ 10.5922/10.5922/2079-8555-2019-1-3.
59. Mikhaylov, A. S., Gorochnaya, V. V., Hvaley, D. V., Gumenyuk, I. S. 2020, Innovative development of Russian coastal regions: north-south divergence, Balt. Reg., vol. 12, no. 3, p. 105— 126. doi: https://doi.org/10.5922/2079-8555-2020-3-7.
60. Druzhinin, A. G. 2021, Idei klassicheskogo evraziistva i sovremennost’: obshchestvenno-geograficheskii analiz [The ideas of classical Eurasianism and modernity: socio-geographical analysis], Rostov-on-Don, Publishing House of the Southern Federal University, 270 p. (in Russ.).
61. Shuper, V. A. 2020, Self-organization at the trajectory turning point: Challenges for Russia, Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya, no. 1. p. 147—155. doi: https://doi.org/10.31857/S2587556620010173.
62. Ermakova, N. A. 2012, Experience of classification of hinterlands of sea port-industrial complexes, Izvestiya Sankt-Peterburgskogo gosudarstvennogo ekonomicheskogo universiteta [Izvestiya of St. Petersburg State University of Economics], no. 3, p. 57—63 (in Russ.).
63. Dets, I. A. 2017, Approaches to identification and delimitation of hinterlands of large seaports on the example of Novorossiysk and St. Petersburg, Geograficheskii vestnik [Geographical Bulletin], no. 4, p. 60—68 (in Russ.).
64. Baklanov, P. Ya. 2018, Marine Spatial Planning: Theoretical Aspects, Balt. Reg., vol. 10, no. 2, p. 76—85. doi: https://doi.org/10.5922/2079-8555-2018-2-5.