Founded by: Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University Smolensk University for Humanities Publisher: Smolensk University for Humanities Registered in Ministry REGIONAL of Mass media: Reg. certificate. № ПИ № 77-7284 от 19.02.01 RESEARCH Listed in the rank of leading reviewed scientific publications of VAK Editor: Dr. A. Katrovskiy (Smolensk) Co-editors: Dr. V. Streletskiy (Moscow) Academic journal Dr. V. Shuvalov (Moscow) Dr. A. Chistobayev (SaintPetersburg) Established in 2001 Editorial council: Published quarterly Dr. P. Baklanov (Vladivostok); Dr. A. Vishnevs- kiy (Moscow); Dr. A. Gladkiy (Ukraine); Dr. N. Zubarevich (Moscow); Dr. Z. Krišjāne (Latvia); Dr. N. Kasimov (Moscow); Dr. V. Kolosov (Mos- cow); Dr. A. Kuznetsov (Moscow); Dr. G. Lappo (Moscow), Dr. S. Lentz (Germany); Dr. A. Murphy (USA); Dr. N. Mironenko (Moscow); Dr. J.-R. Pitte (France); Dr. M. Sharygin (Perm) Editorial board: A. Aguirrechu (Moscow); A. Alekseev (Moscow); V. Baburin (Moscow); V. Belozerov (Stavropol), L. Vardomskiy (Moscow); Yu. Kovalev (Smo- lensk); O. Kuznetsova (Moscow); L. Mazhar (Smolensk); T. Pototskaya (Smolensk); I. Rodion- ova (Moscow); L. Smirnyagin (Moscow); S. Tark- hov (Moscow); A. Tkachenko (Tver); G. Fedorov (Kaliningrad) Academic Secretary: Yu. Kovalev (Smolensk) Postal address: 214014, Smolensk, Gertzena, 2 Smolensk University for Humanities Phone: (4812) 68–36–88 Email: [email protected] Подписано в печать 03.12.2014 1 Формат 70х108 / . Гарнитура «Times» Тираж16 300 экз. Special Issue, 2015 Отпечатано: ООО «Универсум» [email protected] C REGIONAL RESEARCH, 2015 2 SPECIAL ISSUE, 2015 CONTENTS EDITOR’S COLUMN ............................................................................................................................. 3 THEORY AND METHODOLOGY OF RESEARCH Baburin V.L. Unified model of settlement and location of production ............................................................. 4 Danshin A.I. Contemporary trends and priorities within progress of Russian agricultural geography ................................................................................................................... 14 Savoskul M.S. Migration study in social geography in Russia: interdisciplinary approach ............................................................................................................................... 24 Shuper V.A. Society spatial self-organisation as research field and university course ............................................................................................................ 34 RESEARCH METHODS Bityukova V.R. Integral estimation of environmental situation in Russian cities and towns ......................... 42 Gladkevich G.I. Economic geographical approach to assessment of territory in natural resource management .................................................................................................... 49 Popov A.A. Spatiotemporal analysis of key factors for residential real estate estimates in Moscow ................................................................................................ 60 PRACTICAL RESEARCH Аlekseev А.I. Man and nature in development of rural areas of Non-Chernozem zone ................................. 71 Goryachko M.D. Potential influence of large-scale investment projects in Russia on socio-economic development of regions ..................................................................................... 77 Zubarevich N.V., Safronov S.G. Spatial inequality of money incomes in Russian regions and other large post-Soviet countries ................................................................................. 88 Kazmin M.A. Land market in post-Soviet Russia: territorial aspects of formation and development ............................................................................................. 97 Kuznetsova O.V. Problems of evaluation of federal investment policy as factor of regional development .................................................................................................................. 111 Makhrova A.G., Kirillov P.L. ’Housing Dimension’ of Contemporary Urbanisation in Russia ....................................................................................................... 118 RESEARCH HISTORY Aguirrechu A.A. Establishment and early decades of the department of economic geography of the USSR (Russia) at Moscow University: historic and geographical research ............................................................................. 129 Data on authors ...................................................................................................................................... 142 3 EDITOR’S COLUMN Dear friends! This special issue of ‘Regional Research’ for the 2015 IGU Regional Conference represents the collection of papers by the staff members of Department of Economic and Social Geography of Rus- sia (Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University). The Department was founded in Moscow State University in 1929 byone of the pioneers of Soviet/Russian economic geography Nikolai Nikolaevich Baranski and since then for decades,it remained the leading national institution for the human geography studies. Itisthe largest and most famous University centres in the field of socio-economic geography in Russia. Professors, assistant professors, researchers, graduate students and students of the Department are permanent authors of original scientific articles published in ‘Regional Research’. The Department, in fact, is one of the founders of the journal and part of its staff not only are members of the Editorial Board of the journal, but also consistently participate in the preparation of its issues, including reviewing and refereeing incoming articles. The content of submitted articles reflects general research interests of the staff of the Department. The papers are of various ‘nature’– conceptual, analytical,and methodological.Some are dedicated to the results of specific studies in various fields of socio-economic geography. A special section is devoted to the history of the Department. On behalf of the Editors and the Editorial Board of the journal, I want to congratulate the team of the Department of Economic and Social Geography of Russia with the 85th Anniversary of the Department and wish them further success for the benefit of Geography! A. Katrovskiy (Editor) 4 SPECIAL ISSUE, 2015 THEORY AND METHODOLOGY OF RESEARCH Baburin V.L. (Moscow) UNIFIED MODEL OF SETTLEMENT AND LOCATION OF PRODUCTION Abstract. The article considers the spatial relationship between internal structure of regional systems of settlements and social and economic functions performed by those systems. The aim is to build a unified model of settlement and location based on models of spatial analysis and production functions. This article offers a combination of these two classes of models to assess relationship between density and settlement structureand economic potential of a territory in order to create social and economic development forecasts for regions. Keywords: spatial models of settlement, production functions, settlement system, Russian regions. Introduction. A gap between research in size of the largest city divided into the ranking production and non-production spheres and set- number (rank) of the former. Later G. Zipf spread tlement of population has emerged and is wid- this model on a wider range of human activities ening in modern economic geography. How- and formulated Zipf’s law «rank-size» according ever, all processes are closely interconnected to which population size of n town (Nr) equals to in reality and this connection is wavy and not 1/n of population size of the largest city: strictly determined. Furthermore, it is extremely difficult to determine, what is the argument and Nr = N1 / r, what is the function. A hypothesis may be put forward that those two most important subsys- where r – rank of the town, Nr – population size tems alternate with each other in terms of civi- of the town of rrank, N1 – population size of the lization development – the leader becomes the largest city. follower and vice versa. Classical papers on modeling urban settle- Nowadays there is a rather broad class of ment include the article «On sizes of towns models describing the state of spatial settlement united in a system» («О размерах городов, systems. However, as a rule, demographic and объединенных в систему») by Y.V. Medved- economic components are studied separately, as kov [10]. He suggests a formula: well as urban and rural population being distin- -1 -b guished within settlement component. Пj = к ∙ П1 ∙ J , Having no intention of carrying out a com- prehensive review of papers on this problem, let where Пj – population size ofjtown in ranking, us focus on those, important for the following П1 – population size of the first city; k and b – models. One of first Russian scientists to create constant parameters, reflecting characteristics a model of urban geographywas V.P. Semenov- of the specific system, and, similarly to correla- Tyan-Shansky who suggested a geographical tion factor, serving as a formal «mathematical law in his paper «Town and village in Europe- model of the structure of a system of towns». As an Russia» («Город и деревня в Европейской a rule, Zipf’s law was used to rank towns and России») (1910), according to this law a city is only in rare cases to rank rural settlements [2]. the centre of a planetary system, smaller towns, Currently