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ECO journal (ECOnomics and industrial Engineering)

2019 year, number 5

Territorial Structure of the Economy and Population of the Baikal Region: Features, Trends and Prospects

L.A. Bezrukov
V. B. Sochava Institute of Geography SB RAS, Irkutsk
Keywords: территориальная структура, хозяйство, расселение, освоенность, транспортные магистрали, комплексы, ресурсно-сырьевая специализация, центры, периферия, Тerritorial structure, economy, settlement, degree of territorial development, transport lines, complexes, resource and raw material specialization, cores, periphery

Abstract

The article identifies and quantifies the main features of the modern territorial structure of the economy and population of the Baikal region: latitudinal zonality, meridional west-east asymmetry, gravitation toward main traffic arteries, localization of the industrial potential within territorial-production complexes, and concentration around chief towns and urban agglomerations (core-periphery contrasts), the difference between “Russian” and “non-Russian” (“ethnic”) regions. We established principal trends in transformation of this structure in the post-Soviet stage: the shift of industry to peripheral regions and strengthening of its resource and raw material specialization, domonation of large capital in the region and property redistribution between private all-Russian companies and state corporations of our country, strengthening of inter-municipal central-peripheral polarization of settlements with growing regional centers and their immediate environment. We consider opportunities for a breakthrough in the economic development of the region during the implementation of the project “Nоvyi Angarstroi”.