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Article name Border Contrast Between Russian Regions on the Trajectories of Achieving National Development Goals
Authors Blanutsa V.I. doctor of geographical sciences, RAS expert in economic sciences, leading researcher, Laboratory of Geo-Resources Studies and Political Geography, blanutsa@list.ru
Bibliographic description Blanutsa V. I. Border contrast between russian regions on the trajectories of achieving national development goals // Transbaikal State University Journal. 2023. Vol. 29, no. 1. Pp. 63–73. DOI: 10.21209/2227-9245- 2023-29-1-63-73.
Category Economy
DOI 911.3
DOI 10.21209/2227-9245-2023-29-1-63-73
Article type Original article
Annotation The relevance of the study lies in the fact that when studying socio-geographical borders, the main attention has been paid to state borders and their impact on the socio- economic development of border and cross-border regions. The object of the study is the system of national development goals of Russia, and the subject of the study is the spatial and temporal inequality in achieving development goals between Russian regions. The aim of the study is to determine the differences between neighboring regions of Russia along the trajectories of achieving national development goals in order to identify contrasting borders and clarify the emerging territorial structure. The values of 19 indicators of achievement of national development goals in 2021–2030 for 85 Russian regions are used. The sequence of isolation of individual regions and groups of regions using contrasting borders is determined. This made it possible to identify a specific territorial structure for achieving the national development goals of the Russian Federation, consisting in the existence of a capital territory that differs from all, surrounded by regions with relatively similar rates of achieving the goals and “displacing” contrasting regions to the southern (south-western) and northern (northwestern) state borders in European part of Russia, as well as beyond Ural Mountains. This structure differs significantly from the distribution of Russian regions by Federal Districts, clusters of promising economic specialization, macro-regions and geostrategic territories. Due to the relative divergence of the trajectories of the development of regions within the federal districts, it is possible to assume the complexity of effective coordination in achieving the set goals through the system of federal districts of Russia. The macro-regions and geostrategic territories approved in the spatial development strategy, according to their territorial structure, also cannot be used to coordinate the trajectories of achieving national goals. The results obtained can be used to adjust national goals and monitor the implementation of the schedule for achieving the goals. Seven directions of further research are proposed.
Key words socio-economic development, national goal, multidimensional interregional distance, contrasting border, territorial structure, Russian Federation, federal district, monitoring, targets, regional level
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