THE SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE OF K.N. MISEVICH AND RESEARCH INTO THE SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC POTENTIAL OF SETTLEMENT SYSTEMS OF SIBERIA
N.V. Vorobyev
V.B. Sochava Institute of Geography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia
Keywords: Siberian school of population geography, settlement systems, population, socio-demographic potential, economic complex, Siberia
Abstract
This paper provides an overview of Kornei Nikolaevich Misevich’s scientific activity related to the problems of the population and its settlement in connection with the economic development of Siberia for use in the study of modern socio-demographic potential. K.N. Misevich is a geographical scientist in the field of population studies, a recognized specialist in the field of socio-economic geography and cartography in Russia and abroad. It is shown that the scientist made a great contribution to the study of the territorial organization of settlement systems in connection with the peculiarities of economic activity, socio-demographic conditions of the population, traditional ways of life of indigenous small-numbered peoples, and the development of multi-scale maps of the population. He established the nature of the relationship between the geographical features of production and the settlement of the population in the areas of economic development in Siberia. The results of his research have been published in 250 scientific papers. For his scientific achievements K.N. Misevich received a number of state awards and public recognition: he was elected an Honorary Member of the Russian and Ukrainian Geographical Societies.
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