Typology of rural territories in russia in socio-historical retrospect: methods, approaches, and tools

DOI 10.33938/2011-71

Issue № 11, 2020, article № 8, pages 71-80

Language: Russian

Original language title: ТИПОЛОГИЯ СЕЛЬСКИХ ТЕРРИТОРИЙ РОССИИ В СОЦИАЛЬНО-ИСТОРИЧЕСКОЙ РЕТРОСПЕКТИВЕ: МЕТОДЫ, ПОДХОДЫ, ИНСТРУМЕНТЫ

Keywords: RURAL TERRITORIES, TYPOLOGY, ADMINISTRATIVE-TERRITORIAL STRUCTURE, TERRITORIAL ADMINISTRATION, ECONOMY, STATISTICS, SOCIAL LIFE, RURAL REPRODUCTION

Abstract: In this article, the author attempts to analyze the methods, mechanisms and tools of typology of rural territories in Russia in a long historical retrospective. Typology is considered in the work, first of all, as a specific tool not only for scientific analysis, but also for administrative management of territorial development. As the author points out, the sociohistorical approach allows studying the methodology of typologization of rural territories to focus on the study of the settlement system, which should be considered as the material embodiment of certain stages of settlement, economic fuctionation and existence of the Russian village, as well as the structure of agricultural, commercial, environmental, cultural-anthropological and other activities of the population. Special attention is paid to the historiography of evaluation and statistical works as a unique experience of typological research (which should be the subject of a separate scientific research). The author focuses the readers ' attention on research studies of the Soviet period on the enlargement of rural settlements, including the concept of "agro-towns" (which are usually attributed to the period of 1960-1970, while they are much older). In conclusion, the article concludes that it is necessary to match various methods of typologization of rural territories not only to the economic-management and evaluation-statistical tools, but also to the historical, cultural, economic and environmental foundations of life of the rural population.

Authors: Novikov Vladimir Gennadevich