Статьи журнала - Arctic and North
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The article investigates the social composition of the population and migration in the Arkhangelsk North — in the Arkhangelsk region. The background for the research is a comparative analysis of the census held in the area since 1926. The author focuses of the transformation and changes that had occurred in the migratory behavior of the population and composition of the population by occupation, place of birth and residence in the following decades.
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Based on the data from the State Archive of the Arkhangelsk Region, the article assesses the status of merchant and folk Pomor shipbuilding in the North in the 20th century. The key method of the research is the induction method, which is actively used in the historical school of economics, which set as its goal, including the analysis of specific economic situations in a state at a certain stage of its historical de-velopment. During the process of research, the analysis has been made of the certain cases and documents of the Arkhangelsk Society for the Study of the Russian North, as well as historical reviews of the Arkhangelsk Governorate Statistical Committee. The conclusion was made overall about the negative perception of regional authorities of the level of development of commodity turnover in the Empire, the absence of high-quality “logistics,” bureaucratic red tape, legal barriers to support shipbuilders, as well as technological advantages of foreign fishing vessels. A constructive reform of the regional authorities in the second half of the 19th century meant the plan for the development of road infrastructure between Arkhangelsk and the town of Povenets in the Olonets Province (Governorate), the development of skipper courses, the creation of a typical improved model of a karbas and a cargo schooner for training future shipbuilders, skippers.
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The state policy of the modern Russia in the Arctic: periods, priorities and several results
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The article analyzes the public policy of modern Russia in the Arctic region, it is an attempt to periodization, presentation characteristics of each stage, priorities, and summed up the results.
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The strategy of Canada in the Arctic and Russia: is it possible to find mutual understanding?
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Canada's Arctic policy on the modern stage is analyzed in the article. It is also studied Canadian and Russian relations in this region. They are identified, like the most ‛problematic’, and also the favourable spheres for cooperating of 2 states in the Far North. It is concluded that among ‛official’ arctic powers, Canada is the most likely partner for Russia in the regional cooperating.
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The strokes to the portrait of a resident of the Arctic zone of Yakutiya
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The article reveals the results of the survey, which was attended by residents living in six of the eight Arctic encampments of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) of the main demographic, ethno‐linguistic and socio-cultural aspects of the development of the Yakut society in the early twenty-first century.
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The student of NArFU: vector of changes
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The article dedicates to the problems of the sociological support of educational innovation.
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The students of NArFU conquered Brussels
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The students of the NArFU named after M. V. Lomonosov hold a week took part in the training course of Journalism in Brussels. During their trip they visited the main Institutions of European power, such as European Union, European Commission and European Parliament. They saw all the under water stones of the work of the journalists in NATO and they discussed the main questions, which were connected with the Arctic with Russian mission in NATO and they also had a chance to take part in the elections of the president of Russia.
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The study of public opinion on industrial mining in the Nefteyugansk district of Yugra
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In this article, we consider the views of respondents on the industrial development of mineral deposits on the example of the Nefteyugansky district, Yugra. The analysis of views regarding the development of mineral deposits represents a comparative sociological study. It summarizes the results of a poll conducted in 2015 on the territory of Nefteyugansk district and earlier studies done in 2008 and 2012. The results of polls showed that most respondents had positive sentiments to the industrial mining. On the other hand, in contrast to 2008, in 2015, the proportion of people, who opposed the commercial development of mineral resources, got bigger. At the same time, most respondents believed that industrial mining resulted in environmental degradation of the area (district) of their residence.
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The system of the sustainable development of the regions of the circumpolar area
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The article presents a system approach in the research of the sustainable development in the Arctic region and its basic evidence as a system, the attention is paid to features of the development of the languages.
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The tasks of the assessment of environmental damage in the Arctic
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Development of oil and gas fields of the Arctic zone carries risks of destroying ecosystems and causing significant environmental damage. It is therefore particularly important to take preventive conservation measures in the early stages of exploration of the Arctic. The basis of such measures and tools is the valuation of environmental damage that could reduce the risk of environmental degradation in the Arctic zone. In order to provide the ability of the restoration work, it is necessary to create financial assets or other tools to begin rehabilitation work immediately in case of emergency and to eliminate the consequences of the damage caused after the completion of the work.
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The traditional culture of the esquimau
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A brief description of the origin, name, language, of esquimau, indigenous beliefs, cultures and contemporary sociopolitical life.
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On the basis of archival documents, entered into scientific circulation, the author considers the local experience of organizational and management activities in relation to the farms of the North of Yaku-tia within a specially created agro-industrial complex (AIC). In the considered period of the AIC “Sever” ac-tivities, in 1989-1991, organizational processes of unbundling of state farms and the beginning of reorgani-zation of management were decisive. At the end of 1990s, for the first time, decisions on transition to mar-ket relations were officially declared by the AIC. At the same time, the real social and economic situation of farms had already begun to show the deterioration, incl. a decrease in the quantitative indicator — reduc-tion in the number of farms in the studied areas. As it is in the documents, the state of home reindeer hus-bandry, the leading economic sector in the North, was of a particular concern.
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After the Second World War changes in the foreign policy of Norway became a consequence of the problems that the country faced in 1940. The growing confrontation between the East and the West led to the formation of the bipolar world and made the Norwegian government change the foreign policy.
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Studied the accumulation, migration and transformation of the mobile forms of copper in different types of soil in Arkhangelsk. In urban soils, as opposed to natural, not only changes the relationship of transformational forms, but the nature of the relationship of copper with soil components. The influence of technogenic to consolidate copper in the soil and on its possible transition conditions change to the neighboring environment.
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The analysis of the results of studying the question of a role of the transformation of the territorial and settlement structure in the Arkhangelsk region as a factor of the change of number of country people during the period between population censuses of 1926–2010 is presented in the article.
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The unique population of dolgani
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Dolgans – is a unique people, which to this day remain a nomadic way of life and traditions. The article gives a description of their origin, resettlement area, beliefs, traditional culture.
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The value of the Arctic for Russia's national security, China may become the Arctic Power
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Consider the value of the Arctic for Russia's national security and strategic aspects of the Arctic itself. At the moment, the military- political situation in the Arctic seems not to be dangerous for Russia. Investigated the effects of reduced ice cover, which allows US Navy warships — aircraft carriers and cruisers and destroyers equipped with the “Aegis” system — to enter the Arctic waters. In this article possible scenarios of conflict and prospects of the geopolitical situation in the Arctic are examined. In future, China could purchase one of the islands of Iceland. Such a possession would automatically make China an Arctic Power.
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Analysis of the causes and sources of the so-‐called "Arctic competition" between Murmansk and Arkhangelsk identifies strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT-‐analysis) of the marine transport hubs. The focus of the article is the transport integration problem and logistics. Arkhangelsk and Murmansk marine nodes were created as the part of a single freight logistics system in the North and were not supposed to compete, but to complement each other. Nearest future will bring up the issue of the national transport and logistics integrator with the functions of the “upper-‐corporative” logistics center responsible for evidence-‐based, homogeneous and transparent re-‐distribution of traffic and freight logistics market bases in the western part of the Russian Arctic.
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The “Arctic Encyclopedia”: The Paulsen Publishing House has issued a fundamental work
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Here we present a review of a two volume scientific work published in April 2017 by the Paulsen Publishing House — the “Arctic Encyclopedia”. The authors — 100 people from different fields of science — enabled the publisher to get a detailed coverage of geography, flora and fauna, climate, indigenous peoples of the Arctic, as well as international cooperation, social, economic and cultural development of the Arctic areas. This work is a fundamental one and deserves close attention from every person interested in the Arctic issues.
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The “keep in the ground future” of Arctic fossil fuel resources
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It is extremely important to understand which role Arctic fossil fuel resources will play in the development and geopolitics of the Arctic region. The article analyses the recent trends in the world energy supply with special focus on renewable energy and future demand for fossil fuels. Focusing on the Arctic LNG projects it comes to the conclusion that there is a growing possibility that the majority of Arctic oil and natural gas will be kept in the ground. Such an outcome would strongly influence the sustainable development and geopolitics of the region.
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