THE STRUCTURE OF THE ECONOMIC SPACE OF THE RUSSIAN ARCTIC

DOI: 10.36871/ek.up.p.r.2021.07.01.017
UDC 332.1

Authors

E. A. KORCHAK,
Candidate of Economic Sciences, Senior Researcher, Luzin Institute for Economic Studies, Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Apatity, Russia

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to analyze the structure of the economic space of the Russian Arctic within the framework of determining the prospects for the economic development of the Arctic regions. The unevenness of the economic space of the Russian Arctic and the focus on the extraction and export of natural resources are determined. It is revealed that vertically integrated structures play a key role in the Russian Arctic. It is determined that the specific feature of this region is the ethnoeconomics, the long-term development of which is the dominant direction of the national policy in the field of agriculture of the Russian Arctic.

Keywords

economic space, Russian Arctic, oil and gas complex, mining, ethnoeconomics.