Natalia Zubarevich
Natalia Vasilyevna Zubarevich | |
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Наталья Васильевна Зубаревич | |
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Nationality | Russian |
Citizenship | Soviet Union → Russia |
Alma mater | MSU Faculty of Geography |
Awards | International Leontief Medal,[1] Yegor Gaidar Award, Nikolay Baransky Award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Economic geography, political geography, social geography |
Institutions | Moscow State University |
Natalya Vasilyevna Zubarevich (Russian: Наталья Васильевна Зубаревич, born 7 June 1954, Moscow) is a Russian economist-geographer specializing on the socio-economic development of the regions. She has been the professor of the Department of Economic And Social Geography of Russia of the Moscow State University since 2005.
Biography
In 1976 Zubarevich graduated from the
Since 2003 Zubarevich has been combining teaching with the work of the director of the regional program of the Independent Institute of Social Policy. The Social Atlas of Russian Regions program helps researchers, investors, politicians, teachers and students. With its help, you can see the severity of existing problems in the regions, assess human capital and social infrastructure, get acquainted with modern trends in regional development.
In 2010 she became the full member of the Association of Russian Geographers and Social Scientists and the member of the Expert Council of the Association.
Zubarevich constantly participates as a leader and responsible executor in the programs of the
Zubarevich also lectures at universities and public bodies of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, the Netherlands, and Germany at the invitation of international organizations.
In September 2020, Zubarevich supported the Belarusian protests.[2]
The theory of the Four Russias
Professor Zubarevich is the author of the "theory of the four Russias",[3] developed by her from the center-peripheral model of space development (center and periphery) that has existed in economic geography since the 1970s. Russia, in socio-economic terms, is internally heterogeneous, divided into relatively developed cities and a backward province.
- Russia-1 includes Moscow and the million-plus cities, where 21% of the Russian population lives. 12 cities of the country are mainly post-industrial society (with the exception of Omsk, Perm, Chelyabinsk, Volgograd and Ufa), they concentrate the middle class of Russia. The main internal migration is directed to these cities: millionaires attract the population of their regions, while Moscow attracts people from the whole country. This category may include cities with a population of over 500 thousand or over 250 thousand inhabitants (which is about 36% of the country's population). These people have access to jobs, markets, culture and the Internet.
- Russia-2 includes industrial cities, single—industry towns, with a population of 20 to 250 thousand inhabitants (as well as larger industrial cities such as Sovietlifestyle". The solvency of the population is low.
- Russia-3 includes the Russian hinterland like small towns and villages, where 38% of the total population of the country lives. In these localities, the population is shrinking and aging.
- Russia-4 includes the republics of the Tyva, Altai) that account for less than 6% of the country's population. The economy of these regions depends on the support of the federal center.
References
- ^ Laureates of Leontief Medal "For Achievements in Economy"
- ^ "We are deeply outraged that the authorities prefer violence rather than dialogue with the society"
- ^ Natalia Zubarevich. "Четыре России" [The Four Russias] (in Russian). // vedomosti.ru. Retrieved 2014-12-11.