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Growth Poles and Ghost Towns in the Russian Far North
From: Russia and the North
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The analysis in this chapter is based on a combination of statistics showing changes in the size and composition of the population of the Far North, as well as policy documents of the Russian government that reflect changes in its policy towards northern development generally and the population and labour force of the region specifically.
Contributors
Timothy Heleniak
Timothy Heleniak is a faculty research associate in the Department of Geography at the University of Maryland. He has researched and written extensively on migration, regional development and demographic trends in Russia and the other countries of the former Soviet Union. He is currently working on a National Science Foundation grant, conducting research on migration and regional development in Siberia and the Russian Far North. He previously worked at the World Bank and the US Census Bureau, and was an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. During the 2001–2002 academic year, he was a research fellow at the Kennan Institute.
