The Transformation of Economic Development in the Border Regions of Russia and Kazakhstan in the Post-Soviet Period

Authors

  • Alexander Burnasov Ural Federal University Department of Theory and History of International Relations
  • Ilyushkina Maria Ural Federal University Department of Theory and History of International Relations
  • Yury Kovalev Ural Federal University Department of Theory and History of International Relations
  • Anatoly Stepanov Ural Federal University Institute of Further Education and Vocational Training
  • Gulnara Nyussupova

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24917/20801653.332.10

Keywords:

border regions, Eurasian Economic Union, integration, Kazakhstan, Russia

Abstract

The prospects and trends for the development of border regions of the former Soviet Union have become one of the profound research areas in the field of economic geography recently. In the conditions of planned economy in the Republics of the USSR, a vertical system of industrial complexes was formed, with the focus on performing national economic tasks. There have been some significant changes in the border regions of independent post-Soviet States in the process of transition to the market economy model. The analysis of the industrial and territorial structure is done on the example of Russia and Kazakhstan. The formation of a common market on the basis of the Eurasian Economic Union allowed the border regions to make the most of their competitive advantage in attracting investments. The unique geographical particularity of the research object is manifested in the fact that there are no analogues of the longest land border in the world as between Russia and Kazakhstan. The new forms of production organisation are implemented in the border regions of the studied countries over more than 7,000 km. More than a quarter of a century later, transformation processes are clearly observed in the mining and manufacturing industries, agriculture, transport and services. As a result, the “regional asymmetry” of industrial development can be observed when manufacturing regions with high added value become the “cores” of economic development of cross-border relations between Russia and Kazakhstan.

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Author Biographies

Alexander Burnasov, Ural Federal University Department of Theory and History of International Relations

Alexander Burnasov, PhD, Deputy Head of the Department of Theory and History of International Relations,
associate professor, Chair of International Relations, Ural Federal University named after the first President
of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg, Russia. Research interests: development of transport logistics in the
context of globalisation, international communication and international cooperation, history, economy, logistics, globalisation. Author of over 30 works in this field, including 3 monographs.

Ilyushkina Maria, Ural Federal University Department of Theory and History of International Relations

Ilyushkina Maria, associate professor, Chair of Linguistics and Professional Communication in Foreign Languages, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Research interests: cross-cultural communication, linguistics, world economy and clusters. Author of over 30
works in this field, including 2 monographs.

Yury Kovalev, Ural Federal University Department of Theory and History of International Relations

Yury Kovalev, PhD in Geography, associate professor, Chair of International Relations, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg, Russia. Research interests: innovative
regions of the world, processes of convergence and divergence in the world economy, problems of modern
economic geography, economic geography, world civilisations. Author of over 40 works in this field, including
5 monographs.

Anatoly Stepanov, Ural Federal University Institute of Further Education and Vocational Training

Anatoly Stepanov, PhD in Geography, professor, Head of the Chair of Economics of Institute of Further Education and Vocational Training, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin,
Ekaterinburg, Russia. Research interests: socio-economic asymmetry in the economic development of the
regions, the impact of globalisation on the transformation of regions, theory of clusters and cluster strategies,
world economy, globalisation, cluster policy, economic geography. Author of over 360 works in this field,
including 6 monographs.

Gulnara Nyussupova

Gulnara Nyussupova, professor, Head of the Chair of Geography, Land Management and Cadastre, Kazakh
National University named after Al-Farabi, Almaty, Kazakhstan. Research interests: socio-economic asymmetry in the economic development of the regions, the impact of globalisation on the transformation of regions,
GIS technology, economic geography. Author of over 300 works in this field, including 5 monographs.

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2019-09-17

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Burnasov, A. ., Maria, I. ., Kovalev, Y. ., Stepanov, A. ., & Nyussupova, G. . (2019). The Transformation of Economic Development in the Border Regions of Russia and Kazakhstan in the Post-Soviet Period. Studies of the Industrial Geography Commission of the Polish Geographical Society, 33(2), 132–141. https://doi.org/10.24917/20801653.332.10

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Vol. 33 No. 2 (2019): Conditions for regional and local development

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