Abstract
The category of economic-geographical position (EGP) was formalized based on a review of the scientific literature. The developed method of international and interregional EGP potential assessment was based on the use of gravity models; it can further be widely used in regional studies to explore the benefits of the spatial location of objects (countries, regions, cities, etc.). These calculations for Russia’s regions showed significant spatial differentiation. The maximum potential of interregional EGP potential have the regions located near Moscow and St. Petersburg agglomerations, the potential decreases uniformly to the east. The maximum international EGP potential concentrated in regions on the coast of the Black Sea, the Baltic Sea and the Sea of Japan. The potential of the Kaliningrad region 5.6 times higher than it is for the Tyva Republic. In addition, it was revealed a significant increase in the total EGP potential in the 2000s, and its shift to the southern regions of the Far East due to the growth of the Asia-Paci c economies. The results were also used to identify connections between the EGP potential and indicators of socio-economic development. It was found that favourable EGP is one of the factors for GRP growth, investment, foreign trade, migration growth and spread of new technologies. Formalizing EGP as a category allows using it to predict the spatial changes in the socio-economic development of Russia.
Highlights
“Economic-geographical position” (EGP) is one of the basic categories of regional studies in Russia
The economic-geographical position (EGP) potential is an estimation of possible benefits, which regional economy can receive due to its proximity to other major markets through inter-regional interactions
The developed method the EGP potential assessment, based on the use of gravity models, can further be widely used in regional studies to explore the benefits of the different locations of spatial
Summary
“Economic-geographical position” (EGP) is one of the basic categories of regional studies in Russia. The strategies of socio-economic development in some regions have a special item about its geographical position 2. These documents mainly provide a qualitative characteristic of a "favourable" or "unfavourable" economic-geographical position of a region 3. One of the factors of spatial differentiation is an EGP. The EGP concept is one of the keys to a system of regional science (economic geography, regional and spatial economy), as it allows to explain many properties of spatial objects and predict their development. An economic-geographical position of a region is a historically evolved, but varying set of spatial relationships between economic agents of this region and external factors potentially influencing regional development 5. The spatial relationship between objects, in this case, is primarily associated with a distance between them
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