Economic and Social Geography of Russia

About the program

The profile «Economic and Social Geography of Russia» is focused on comprehensive research on the problems of territorial organization of society, the development of cities and regions of different hierarchical levels, conducting comprehensive regional diagnostics, territorial planning, and design. The graduate masters the methodology and modern methods of studying the population, its settlement, and the main sectors of the economy at different territorial levels; capable of solving problems in the field of socio-economic geography (including Russia and neighboring countries), regional analysis, territorial (including urban) planning and design of various types of social-economic activities, and environmental management.

Graduates of the profile are able to solve research, design and production (design and survey) and expert and analytical tasks of professional activity.

Specialized professional competencies of graduates of the profile «Economic and Social Geography of Russia» 

He/she is able to collect social-economic information, use for its processing and analysis methods of economic and geographical research at the local, regional and national levels, including in Russia and neighboring countries, and apply them in solving professional problems (SPK-1).

Student is able to participate as an executor in the development of individual sections of territorial and sectoral socio-economic development projects, including territorial and urban planning documents (SPK-2).

He /she is capable of preparing a comprehensive economic and geographical analysis of the regions of Russia and neighboring countries for the purpose of its use in the development of strategic and territorial planning documents (SPK-3).

Student possesses methods of studying the regional environmental situation and the factors of its formation at different territorial levels, skills in complex analysis of anthropogenic (or manmade) impact and identification of regional environmental problems (SPK-4).

He/she is capable of conducting economic and geographical analysis of the territorial organization of the main sectors of the Russian economy (SPK-5).

Student is capable of conducting comprehensive regional diagnostics at different hierarchical levels, developing individual measures and mechanisms of regional policy (SPK-6).

He/she is able to identify the main trends in urban development, apply the theoretical foundations of the development of urbanization processes in practical activities in the field of territorial and urban regulation and planning (SPK-7).

Disciplines that form the profile «Economic and Social Geography of Russia» 

2nd year 

Geography of natural resources

Methodology of economic and geographical research

Social-economic indicators of countries and regions

Social foundations of social reproduction

Theoretical foundations of socio-economic geography

Technical and economic fundamentals of industrial production

Technical and economic fundamentals of agricultural production

Econometrics

3rd year 

Geography of the investment complex

Geography of the world economy

Geography of industry

Geography of the service sector

Geography of agriculture

Geography of transport

Geography of the tourism industry

Quantitative methods in socio-economic geography

4th year 

Geography of neighboring countries

Geo-urbanistics

Basics of territorial design

Political geography

Regional policy

Socio-economic geography of Russian regions

Environmental problems of regional development

Economic-geographical zoning

An approximate list of disciplines of the student’s choice that form a profile 

The Arctic in the context of global changes

Geography of innovation processes

Geography of industry markets

State and municipal administration

Historical geography

Cultural geography

Cultural landscape

Municipal law and local government

food security

Social-economic geography of China

Social-economic geography of the BRICS countries

Social-economic geography of the United States

Social-economic cartography

Sociology

Special geoinformatics

Theories and modern problems of world development

Theory and methodology of regional studies

Theory of regional studies

Territorial land use systems