Department of Economic And Social Geography of Russia

The Department of Economic And Social Geography of Russia (Russian: Кафедра экономической и социальной географии России) is one of the oldest and the largest Russian educational and research centers in economic geography and regional science

Department of Economic And Social Geography of Russia
Established1929
Parent institution
Moscow State University
Department headVyacheslav Baburin
Location
Moscow
Websitehttp://www.ecoross.ru/

History

The Department of Economic And Social Geography of Russia is the oldest department of the geographical faculty in Moscow State University. It was founded in 1929 by Nikolay Baranskiy as a chair of economic geography on geographical branch of the mehaniko-mathematical faculty. In 1933 it was a part of the soil-geographical faculty as a Chair of Economic Geography of the USSR. After foundation of the geographical faculty in Moscow State University in 1938, the department became a constant division in its structure. Since 1992 it has been called the department of economic and social geography of Russia.

The first head of the department was its founder, N. Baranskiy, professor of the faculty and member-correspondent in Russian Academy of Sciences. Throughout its 80-year history the department has been headed by professor P. Stepanov (1941–1943; 1946–1949), Julian G. Saushkin (1349–1381), A. T. Khruschev (1981–2000), Vladimir E. Shuvalov (2000-2012) and V. Baburin (since July 2012).

Scientists of the chair have created a school of thought known as the Soviet Regional (Rayon) school of economic geography. Its theoretical bases have been made by professors Nikolay Baranskiy and Nikolay Kolosovskiy and were developed by J. Saushkin's works. Many professors of the department brought the big contributions to the formation and development of the theory and methodology of social and economic geography, especially geography of industry, agriculture, transport, non-productive sphere, geography of the population, geourbanistics, and methods of economic-geographical researches.

Staff

The staff includes 6 doctors, 14 candidates of sciences, 6 professors, 9 senior lecturers, 1 assistant, 6 scientific employees and 5 leading engineers.

Professors:

Specialization

Training courses
  • Social and economic indexes of regions and countries
  • Geography of population with demography bases
  • Technical and economic bases of industrial and agricultural production
  • Geography of agriculture, transport, an investment complex, sector of services
  • Recreational geography
  • Geourbanistics
  • Cultural geography
  • Political geography
  • Economic-geographical problems of wildlife management
  • City Ecology
  • Bases of the budgetary policy
  • Institutsional factors of regional development
  • Bases of a regional policy
  • Technique of economic-geographical researches
  • Social and economic cartography
  • Mathematical methods in social and economic geography
  • Geography of areas of Russia and the Near abroad countries
  • Modern problems of regional development
  • Territorial self-organisation of society
  • Economic-geographical expertise

Leading directions of scientific research
  • Evolution of territorial organisation of society
  • Transformation of social and economic space of Russia
  • Social and economic development of regions of Russia and the new independent states
  • Complex economic-geographical researches of regions
  • Social and economic and environmental problems of development of cities
  • Territorial planning and designing
  • Territorial administration and self-management
  • Theory and methodology of economic and social geography.

See also

(in Russian)* The Official site of the Department

(in Russian)* The Information on a site of Geographical faculty of Moscow State University

References
  1. Committee member of Nordic-Baltic conrefence in regional science
  2. Laureates of Leontief Medal "For Achievements in Economy"
  3. "On conference of Association of American Geographers". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2012-07-24.
  4. "Comments on Canada/Russia/Norway: Dialogue and cooperation in the Arctic". Archived from the original on 2013-02-05. Retrieved 2012-07-24.
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