Sergei Rasskasov » Публикация

Аннотация The paper is concerned with settlement, development, civilisation and creation of South Western Siberia – the region of Siberian people ancient dispersion, core land for Russian Siberia, and nowadays old province with rich heritage for research in historical geography. Author defines 12 stages of region’s spatial history including among others ‘natural factors of human dispersion prevailing’, ‘first Russians settling’, ‘metropolitan land for Russian Siberia’, ‘military disintegration of the region’, ‘re-integration of Steppe lands’, ‘agriculture and industrial development’, ‘soviet modernisation’ and ‘postsoviet transformation’.