Landmarks for Spatial Development

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Interregional Migration: Reexamination of Population Redistribution in Russia at the late Soviet Period (Kazuhiro Kumo).- Chapter 3. Clustering of Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Russia Based on the Assessment of Knowledge Spillovers Localization (Tatyana Melnikova).- Chapter 4. Hidden Single-industry Towns in Transition (Irina Turgel).- Chapter 5. The level of urbanization of the regions of Kazakhstan: assessment by the index method (Aksana Panzabekova).- Chapter 6. Differential Approach to Shaping Models of Priority Socio-Economic Development Territories (Gulia Galiullina).- Chapter 7. Models of Spatial Organization of Regional Economies (Yulia Lavrikova).- Chapter 8. Overcoming Interregional Economic Disparities in Russia through Implementation of Resource Projects (Valery Kryukov).- Chapter 9. Industrial districts and industrial clusters. Conceptual approaches from Italian and Eurasian experiences (David Celetti).

Stanislav Martinat is a researcher, a human geographer, currently working in the Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Department at The James Hutton Institute (UK) and at the Department of Environmental Geography, Institute of Geonics, Czech Academy of Sciences. His previous positions involve Cardiff University (School of Geography and Planning), Aston University (Energy and Bioproduct Research Institute), and Arizona State University (School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning). He was awarded by Fulbiright Fellowship (2016-2017) and MSCA Co-fund Fellowship (2018-2020).

Vikas Kumar is an associate dean for Research, Innovation and Enterprise and a professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at the Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK. He serves on the editorial board of several international journals, including International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, the Journal of Business Logistics, International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management, and International Journal of Supply Chain and Operations Resilience.

André Torre is the research director at France's National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), works at AgroParisTech, and heads the Paris-Saclay Humanities and Social Sciences Center (MSH Paris-Saclay). By virtue of his research in the social sciences, poised at the intersection of industrial and spatial economics, he has made a name for himself as an expert on territorial development from the standpoint of proximity and territorial conflicts. His other job is at Paris-Saclay, where he has directed the Humanities and Social Sciences Center (MSH Paris-Saclay) since 2018.

Yuliya Lavrikova is the director of the Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She is a member of the international Eurasian business and economic community (USA, Netherlands, Turkey), the Association of