Abstract
Trends in the development of natural resources use in Russia for 1991-2017 are presented. The role of industries based on mineral resources has increased over the post-Soviet years. The use of renewable natural resources is increasingly shrinking into compact areas near “central sites” and main transportation routes. The inventory of implemented investment projects was used as the basis for compiling a small-scale map to display the main features of industrial and transport development of the territory of post-Soviet Russia. The article states that topical changes in the natural-resource sphere do not match the criteria of sustainable development.
Highlights
Natural resources, for which the territory of Russia has long been famous, are still providing Russia with survival and even development in the conditions of the continuing crisis of recent decades
After a significant drop in the 1990s, the production of non-renewable mineral resources in Russia practically reached the Soviet level by the 2010s and even exceeded it in some positions (Table 1)
The inventory of implemented investment projects was used as the basis for compiling a small-scale map to display the main features of industrial and transport development of the territory of post-Soviet Russia (Fig 1)
Summary
For which the territory of Russia has long been famous, are still providing Russia with survival and even development (very unstable development) in the conditions of the continuing crisis of recent decades. Complex in the country’s economy; and the priority of the earth sciences, including geography, in the Russian scientific sphere. Development trends of the Russian natural resource complex as a whole in the postSoviet period were considered in domestic and foreign literature (Doroshenko et al 2014; Bradshaw and Connolly 2016; et al.). The purpose of the article is to determine the post-Soviet trends in the development. An attempt is made to map providing zone on the planet; the strategic the post-Soviet industrial and transport significance of the natural resource development of Russian territory
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