Geography of society, interdisciplinary approach and the research program (on the example of the north of Russia)

Interdisciplinary approach in the system of geographical sciences is most fully expressed in the uniform geography, i.e. in the geography of society studying geosystems “natural environment - population - economy”. In this case the urgency of the interdisciplinary approach is objectively caused by the increasing penetration of natural factors and conditions into the problematics of social processes. The research programs aimed at the solution of concrete problems of interrelation of the nature and society, can be only interdisciplinary, i.e. they necessarily should rely on the synthesis of knowledge of some sciences, on the combination of various methods of research. Studying of natural-social systems assumes associativity of not only factual data, but also of various methods of spatial analysis. Constructibility of the interdisciplinary approach in geography is realized in research programs of development of the natural-social systems which dimension is caused by the availability of territorial connectivity of properties and qualities of the nature with life activity of the population. In the European North of Russia we refer the Karelia-Kola and Dvina-Pechora ones to geosystems of regional level.