Human Geography in Uzbekistan: History, Contemporary Trends, International Context of Development
https://doi.org/10.31857/S2587556620040068
Abstract
The historical trajectory of the human geography genesis in Uzbekistan as a part of the common scientific and educational space of the USSR is analyzed. Main factors, peculiarities and priorities of its development in the post-Soviet period are elucidated. The human geography in Uzbekistan was originated in 1920s, but it has formed and taken the relevant shape only in the early 1960s, in line with tradition of the complex regional field research. Two main scientific directions emerged and evolved within it: first, geography of agriculture, and, second, population and urban geography. The inventory of the human geography divisions in universities of Uzbekistan is made; main achievements of the scientific schools (in the field of agricultural geography headed by Z.M. Akramov, and in the field of population and urban geography headed by A.S. Saliev) are represented. The contemporary priorities of human geography in Uzbekistan are determined by relevant social, demographic, economic, natural and environmental challenges both on national and regional scales. The particular attention is given to scientific activities of the Geographical Society of Uzbekistan and its international scientific collaboration, including the cooperation with Russian Geographical Society and Association of Russian Human Geographers.
Keywords
human geography,
history of geography,
Uzbekistan,
Central Asia,
scientific schools of social and economic geography,
international scientific cooperation
Supporting agencies: The study was carried out within the framework of the state-ordered research theme of the Institute of Geography RAS, no. 0148-2019-0008 (“Problems and Prospects of the Russia’s Territorial Development in Terms of its Unevenness and Global Instability”), and during implementation of the Russian Academic Excellence Project 5-100 in the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (section “International Cooperation of Geographers of Uzbekistan: Russian Vector”).
About the Authors
V. N. Fedorko
Secondary General School No. 233
Uzbekistan
Tashkent
Uzbekistan
Tashkent
A. G. Druzhinin
Southern Federal University; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University; Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Rostov-on-Don, Kaliningrad, Moscow
Russian Federation
Rostov-on-Don, Kaliningrad, Moscow
V. N. Streletsky
Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University; Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Kaliningrad, Moscow
Russian Federation
Kaliningrad, Moscow
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Fedorko V.N., Druzhinin A.G., Streletsky V.N. Human Geography in Uzbekistan: History, Contemporary Trends, International Context of Development. Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2020;84(4):617–625. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31857/S2587556620040068
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