Mastering Space of the North of the Sverdlovsk Oblast in the 20th – Early 21st Centuries (the Case of a Timber Processing Complex)
https://doi.org/10.31857/S258755662202011X
Abstract
Sverdlovsk oblast has large wood reserves, especially in the northern and eastern ranges, the availability of which was ensured thanks to transport and industrial construction in the late 19th–20th centuries. In the north of the region, active forest development and the construction of enterprises were carried out. The crisis in the industry in the late 1980s and early 2000s led to negative consequences. The formulation of scenarios for the development of the forest industry, the implementation of new projects in the field of forest development is impossible without taking into account the historical experience in the development of forest resources in the north of the Sverdlovsk oblast. The analysis of this experience is the purpose of the article. Over the long historical period, the development of the industry was most affected by the institutional, socioeconomic, technical, and technological components of modernization. In this regard, emphasis is placed on studying the role of the transport factor in the development of forest resources of the territory, the development of enterprises, and the settlement framework of the industry. It was concluded that the forest industry played a significant role in the formed local territorial-industrial complex, spatially developed due to the presence of rivers with the direction of the current to the east and the construction of meridional railways, as well as a network of narrow-gauge railways, tractor, and roads. At the present stage, the industry is experiencing a deep crisis, the network of enterprises and settlements has significantly decreased. There are polarization and concentration trends in the timber industry with different effects. In the 2000s–the 2010s, a number of investment projects for the development of forests and the construction of enterprises were implemented, however, the role of the industry in the structure of the economy of the north of the Sverdlovsk oblast remains insignificant.
About the Author
I. V. Zykin
Technological Institute – branch of the National Research Nuclear University “MEPhI”
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Lesnoy
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Zykin I.V. Mastering Space of the North of the Sverdlovsk Oblast in the 20th – Early 21st Centuries (the Case of a Timber Processing Complex). Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2022;86(2):268-280. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31857/S258755662202011X
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