INFLUENCE OF MINING INDUSTRY ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT OF THE DISTRICTS OF THE IRKUTSK OBLAST
N.A. IPPOLITOVA1,2
1V.B. Sochava Institute of Geography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 664033, Irkutsk, ul. Ulan-Batorskaya, 1, Russia
nina-ip@list.ru
2Irkutsk State University, 664003, Irkutsk, ul. Karla Marksa, 1, Russia
Keywords: социально-экономическая среда, уровень жизни населения, горнодобывающая промышленность, месторождения, Иркутская область, socio-economic environment, living standards, mining, deposits, the Irkutsk oblast
Abstract
The paper presents an assessment of the socio-economic environment of the areas with mining orientation in the structure of which the mining industry has already been developed or can be developed in the near future. Based on the results of the study, we ranked the districts according to the living standards and resource prerequisites for the development of the mining industry in the short term. The socio-economic environment considered by the municipalities of the Irkutsk oblast is signifi cantly differentiated both in terms of living standards and resource prerequisites for the further development of the mining indus try. However, we can identify some general trends existing at the present moment. Those territories where the mining industry has a long history of development and the raw materials have steady demand in the global and domestic markets (Bodaibo, Nizhneilimskii, Mamsko-Chuiskii districts and Cheremkhovo) have a well-developed social infrastructure. In areas where the development of the mining industry has only just begun or is planned in the near future, there is an urgent need to create and further develop a social infrastructure, which is complicated by environmental conditions (Katanga, Zhigalovskii, Kirenskii dis tricts, etc.). It is the high cost of the extracted raw materials and its demand that should contribute to this process.
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