Historic–geographical peculiarities of exploring Russia’s Northern and Arctic territories in the 17th–19th centuries

Bibliographic Data

ID21219122
AuthorsAlexander Savchenko (0000-0001-6524-5509, The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, corresponding author), A B Savchenko, A I Treivish, А И Трейвиш (0000-0002-6687-577X, Institute of Geography)
Year2017
Volume7
Issue2
Pages169-179
Publication date2017-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRegional Research of Russia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2079-9713 • E-ISSN: 2079-9705
PublisherPleiades Publishing Ltd (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1134/s207997051702006x
OpenAlexW2718651864
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited3

The historic–geographical dynamics and nature of the exploration of Russia’s Northern and Arctic territories are described beginning from the 17th century. These territories immediately began to play an important economic role, because the furs obtained from there served as a source of monetary metals. The country’s budget, in fact, depended on furs, and the successes of exploring the North (and East) were especially impressive then. For the entire three-century-long period, this exploration has been most closely associated with extraction and export of raw materials, which has determined Russia’s specialization in global commodity markets, characteristic of every historical period. The article overviews how each of the three centuries that preceded the Soviet period contributed to this process and paved the way fort the Soviet spurt in the development of Russia’s Northern and Arctic territories. The authors also compare the historic–geographical features of exploration of Russia’s Arctic and Northern territories with the similar process in the American North

Arctic · Commodity · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Geography · The arctic · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Geology

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