Economy of the North in the aspect of Russia’s national security

• Published in: Economy of Region
• Main Author: Lazhentsev, V. N.
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Economics, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2012
• Subjects: GEOPOLITICAL AND SOCIAL ECONOMIC SITUATION; INTEGRATION IN GEOGRAPHICAL SYSTEMS «SOUTH-NORTH»; THE ARCTIC; THE NORTH; Arctic
• Online Access: http://elar.urfu.ru/handle/10995/131713; https://doi.org/10.17059/2012-2-5

This paper reviews the following questions of studying of the North with reference to a problematic of national safety of Russia: economic maintenance of geopolitics in the zone of Arctic, optimization of distribution of mineral-raw, fuel and energy resources between the Russian and international markets, expansion of inter-regional technological cooperation, coordination of resourced and innovative strategy with representations about postindustrial economy, achievement of a condition of social well-being. The scientific explanation of the specified objects is aimed at formation of a special kind of state policy, notably — connection of separate parts of the country to the creation of the general bases of safe social and economic development. The economic-geographical analysis has allowed obtaining additional proofs on necessity, firstly, of maintenance of the North as an insurance reserve of a sustainable development of the country and, secondly, eliminating those reasons which could lead to undesirable position of the North as hypothetical destabilizing element of national economy.