Introduction. In the immediate aftermath of the Nazi defeat in Kalmykia’s territory, local Komsomol members initiated most essential efforts to restore ruined industrial facilities, buildings of ...public organizations, schools, took active part in agricultural works and war-supporting activities. Nonetheless, on 28 December 1943 the Kalmyk ASSR was abolished, the whole Kalmyk people were wrongly blamed and deported to Siberia. Goals. The article attempts an analytical insight into activities of Kalmykia’s Komsomol organization before the deportation and in the restoration period. Materials and methods. The study focuses on unpublished documents housed at the National Archive of Kalmykia and periodicals of those years. Results and conclusions. The analysis of archival papers shows despite a limited number of members the Komsomol organization did facilitate a successful revival of the Republic in the post-occupation era. However, the tremendous contribution was ignored when it came to repressions against the Kalmyks in December of 1943. On return from Siberia and during the restoration of autonomy in 1957, there was a slight increase in numbers of Komsomol members who showed great enthusiasm to reconstruct the Republic.
This collection of thirteen essays examines sociolinguistic phenomena in a wide variety of marginal environments, providing both an overview of globalizaiton on the margins and a foundation for an ...expanded understanding of the processes of linguistic and cultural changes at work in these settings. Taking an expansive conceptual view of margins, the volume is organized in three parts, looking at examples of marginal spaces in the nation-state, in online environments, and in the peripheries of urban locations, globally to call attention to new and changing discursive genres, patterns, practices, and identities emerging in these spaces as a result of contemporary mobilities, the evolving global economy, and socio-political changes. With previous research previously confined to the study of globalization in urban areas, this volume opens the door for further research on the complex sociolinguistic processes resulting from globalization on the margins, making this an ideal resource for students and scholars in sociolinguistics, globalization and heritage studies, new media, anthropology, and cultural studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY)
This article analyzes sociodemographic processes in rural districts of Russia's Near North, primarily Kostroma oblast, which is representative of the region. Attention is focused on analyzing the ...mechanisms and assessing the scale of depopulation processes, in which high mortality among the working-age population, migration of the young and middle-aged to cities, and an imbalance in the age and sex composition-a predominantly elderly population and a small proportion of children-all prove to be contributing factors. The authors identify significant differences in demographic indicators across administrative units in Kostroma oblast and emphasize the importance of sociodemographic studies at the primary (municipal and more local) level.
Modern scientists consider migration to be a tool that makes it possible to redistribute human capital, which is currently the most important resource. At that, of special interest are the peripheral ...regions of the country, including those with the cross-border status, where the influence of migration processes on the structure of population is most noticeable. The Pskov Oblast is currently the leader in Russia in terms of depopulation. Natural decline in the region’s population is only partially compensated by migration. In this regard, the role of migration in the solution of demographic issues of regional development is becoming more and more important. The article presents the analysis of migration processes in the Pskov Oblast in the post-Soviet period; the analysis is based on the processing of statistical data. The author attempts to explain the main trends in migration processes in the framework of the Pskov Oblast for the last 20 years. Informational base of the research is formed by the materials of Pskovstat. The research findings can be used in the drafting and adjustment of a concept for demographic development of the region
The blacklist of Bryansk oblast flora including 100 adventive species is compiled. Plants from this blacklist are divided into four groups based on the classification recommended for keeping Black ...Books.
The muskrat population was formed in Omsk oblast in four stages. The first stage began in 1936 and lasted for 15 years; it was then interrupted by tularemia epizootic. The muskrat number recovered in ...the next 20 years and was again interrupted by another tularemia epizootic. The recovery of the muskrat population and its introduction throughout Omsk oblast began in 1971. Since 1996, the area has been fully populated by muskrat and changes in the number of the species have assumed the nature of fluctuations with a periodicity of 5 to 6 years. Under conditions of changing moisture content from 1936 to 2015, changes in the muskrat population had a weak direct correlation with the phases of the Bruckner cycle and with the water level in water bodies and a very weak inverse correlation with the solar activity indices (W, Wolf numbers). At the current stage of the formation of the muskrat population in Omsk oblast, the distribution of the indices of its average annual abundance and the average annual density of the population have a medium direct correlation with the area of the water bodies that are available in the area under study.
Goal It is important to determine the main socioeconomic problems of the industrial region of Russia and suggest the set of measures to overcome negative tendencies evidence from Volgograd ...oblast.Method and methodology of the research Systematic approach for the evaluation of the socioeconomic situation in the region was used as well as multifactorial approach was used to reveal the main problems of the research.Outcome Systematic evaluation of the causes of the negative socioeconomic state of the Volgograd oblast was made; the set of measures for the optimization, revealing of the socioeconomic reserves, activation of the regional development were formulated. The suggested set of measures is urgent for the regions with similar socioeconomic structure.Application of the outcomes National economy, regional economics. Purchase on Elibrary.ru > Buy now DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2070-7568-2014-3-1
For the first time, a soil map of St. Petersburg has been developed on a scale of 1 : 50000 using MicroStation V8i software. The legend to this map contains more than 60 mapping units. The ...classification of urban soils and information on the soil cover patterns are principally new elements of this legend. New concepts of the urbanized soil space and urbopedocombinations have been suggested for soil mapping of urban territories. The typification of urbopedocombinations in St. Petersburg has been performed on the basis of data on the geometry and composition of the polygons of soils and nonsoil formations. The ratio between the areas of soils and nonsoil formations and their spatial distribution patterns have been used to distinguish between six types of the urbanized soil space. The principles of classification of the soils of urban territories have been specified, and a separate order of pedo-allochthonous soils has been suggested for inclusion into the Classification and Diagnostic System of Russian Soils (2004). Six types of pedo-allochthonous soils have been distinguished on the basis of data on their humus and organic horizons and the character of the underlying mineral substrate.
Two unusual Middle Ordovician crinoid genera from the St. Petersburg Region,
Pentamerocrinus
Jaekel, 1918 and
Grammocrinus
Eichwald, 1860, are redescribed. A new species,
Pentamerocrinus kosovi
sp. ...nov., is described based on new material and the cup structure in the type species
Grammocrinus lineatus
, which has previously been known only from stem fragments, is reconstructed. The system of ridges and canals on the internal surface of the cup plates in both genera is described, allowing the reconstruction of the aboral nervous system. It is in general similar to extant crinoids, but the two Ordovician genera differ considerably in structural details. In
Pentamerocrinus
, ten nerve cords diverge interradially from the ganglionated nerve ring at the cup base and soon are fused in pairs inside the rays. In
Grammocrinus
, a similar nerve ring also gives rise to ten cords, but they are inside the rays and become fused in the interrays. This distinction in morphology of the nervous systems is correlated with the interradial arrangement of the axial canal angles of the stem in the first case and radial in the second. Therefore, despite general similarity in the structure and arrangement of calyceal plates, the genus
Grammocrinus
is assigned to the disparid crinoid family Iocrinidae, while the monotypic family Pentamerocrinidae Jaekel, 1918 is regarded as a fam. inc. sed. of inadunate crinoids.
Species composition of the genus
Obruchevichthys
Vorobyeva, 1977, previously based on two specimens from the Upper Frasnian (Upper Devonian) of Latvia and Leningrad Region of Russia is revised. The ...precise locality of the latter specimen was considered by the author of this taxon as unknown. Archives recently found in collection and field research in the presumable locality allowed the rediscovery of this important locality along the Sondala River (east of the Leningrad Region). This provenance is furthermore supported by spectrometric testing. Despite the presence of several subadult features hindering its attribution by earlier authors to a separate taxon, new observations on its morphology revealed that several characters of the material from Russia significantly differ from those of the type specimen that resulted in its attribution to a new genus and species
Weberepeton sondalensis
gen. et sp. nov. These differences mainly consist in a number of lower jaw characters, such as relative size of marginal teeth, development rate of the adsymphysial plate, orientation of the precoronoid fossa, and dermal ornamentation.
PDF
