Department of Economic And Social Geography of Russia

Department of Economic And Social Geography of Russia
Established	1929
Parent institution	Moscow State University
Department head	Vyacheslav Baburin
Location	Moscow
Website	http://www.ecoross.ru/

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

History edit

The Department of Economic And Social Geography of Russia is a 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. 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.

Staff edit

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 edit

General questions of social and economic geography
Economic geography
Social geography
Political geography
Population and Geography of migration
Geography of branches of key spheres of economy
Wildlife management and the economic organization of territory
Geourbanistics
Regional problems of social and economic development
Territorial planning, designing and management
Regional policy

Leading directions of scientific research edit

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.

External links edit

(in Russian)* The Official site of the Department

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

References edit

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

[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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