Maps of housing conditions in Siberia
T.I. ZABORTSEVA, P.V. ROGOV
V.B. Sochava Institute of Geography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia
Keywords: Western Siberia, Eastern Siberia, territorial differences, housing improvement, housing density, housing construction
Abstract
The focus on the practical application of geographical knowledge is one of the main qualities of modern social geography and cartography. This article provides an overview of the cartographic experience of depicting the living conditions of people in Siberia as one of the main criteria for the quality of life, with the aim of applying it in the Atlas of the Asian part of Russia. The category «housing conditions» included mainly basic indicators of housing amenities, according to statistical observation (heating, hot and cold water supply, sewage disposal, electricity supply, and gas supply), as well as specific indicators of housing security, the introduction of new housing (in dynamics). For almost twenty years, a cartographic toolkit for the characteristics of housing conditions has been developed on the example of Siberian territories of various hierarchical status (macro-regional, regional, municipal): Russian and Mongolian territory of the Lake Baikal basin, the Baikal region, municipal districts of the Irkutsk region, the city of Irkutsk, etc. Scenario developments for the Asian part of the country include the regions of Western Siberia (the Altai Republic, Altai Krai, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, and Tyumen Oblasts, Khanty-Mansiysk and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Districts (Yugra)) and Eastern Siberia (the Republics of Buryatia, Sakha (Yakutia), Tyva, Khakassia, Zabaykalsky and Krasnoyarsk Krais, and Irkutsk Oblast). The data used are from the Federal State Statistics Service of Russia and its regional offices (2023-2024) for these regions. Currently, the geography of housing well-being in Siberia is determined by three regions: the Yamalo-Nenets and Khanty-Mansi (Yugra) Autonomous Districts, and the Novosibirsk Region, where the indicators of housing improvement are higher (in the first two regions) or at the level of the national average.
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