Coastal zones of modern Russia: delimitation, parametrization, identification of determinants and vectors of Eurasian dynamics
Journal: GEOGRAPHY ENVIRONMENT SUSTAINABILITY
Year: 2020

The resource potential of the oceans has historically had a fundamental impact on the development and spatial organization of mankind. The role of the «marine factor» in economic activity and the formation of settlement systems has increased even more in the modern period, including in Russia, which has long sea coasts that fulfill the country’s most important transport, communication, economic and resource, residential and military infrastructure functions. Since the mid2000s, in Russia there h