Country Study Component of Geographical Science

Abstract

Many people believe that the traditional descriptive geography has exhausted. The position dominates that the country description is not a contribution to science, whereas the regularity, which was confi rmed by quantitative measurements, has scientifi c value and importance. But the vast majority of people believe that the geography is the science about countries. Ignoring local geography and regional geography by geographers leads to neglect of opportunities of geographical science. The task of designing the national geography requires the unity of its physical and economic branches, ties them both to history and politics. Adjustments to the curriculum of geographic, touristic and humanitarian specialties of higher education institutions are required. Multi-volume regional editions of “Russia” and “Picturesque Russia” described the nature together with way of life and style of thinking of inhabitants. Similar by the goals and objectives, the editions of “Soviet Union” and “Environmental Condition and Natural resources of the USSR”, published in the 60s – early 70s, were incomplete because of the lack of attention to a human being. For any state the creating of its attractive portrait to raise its prestige is no less important than the strengthening of the military and economic power. The global role of Russia is that it is a kind of biosphere-therapeutic reserve of the globe, almost half of its spaces are not burdened by anthropogenic and technogenic load. It is geographic attributes that provide political continuity of the country. Together with the traditional division of geography on the physical and socioeconomic geography it should be emphasized and the other two main parts – a general geography and regional geography.