Experience of a comprehensive typology of mountainous regions in Russia based on heterogeneous parameters using cluster analysis
Journal: InterCarto InterGIS
Year: 2025

The need to account for the mountainous character of territories within Russia’s legislative framework and regulatory practice highlights two interrelated challenges: the delimitation of mountains as geomorphological objects on one hand, and the identification of their distinctive features as zones of human development on the other. This study presents a methodological approach utilizing global and sectoral datasets to objectively determine the share of mountainous areas within Russia’s administ