From the Editors

Since 2022, the journal Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya is publishing special issues on important topics in geography. The comprehensive special section offered to readers' attention is another innovation of the journal. This collection has been prepared for the centennial of the International Geographical Union and its congress in Paris (July 2022). It includes seven review articles. Their English translations are simultaneously published in the journal Regional Research of Russia, no. 1 for 2022. These circumstances determine articles' genre and fundamental features. The topics of the articles were chosen so that the special section reflects areas in which the most striking results have been achieved and which are specific to Russia. The authors are leading Russian experts in their respective fields. They have tried, as far as possible, to compare the topics, methodological approaches, and research results with the world mainstream. The main focus is on the last decade, 2010–2021;when necessary, the authors also have referred to earlier publications. The authors of most of the articles pay attention to the peculiarities of spatial development that arose in 2020–2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. © 2022 Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. All rights reserved.

From the Editors

: Since 2022, the journal Regional Research of Russia is publishing special issues on important topics in human geography, regional economics, and sociology. This special issue has been prepared for the centennial of the International Geographical Union celebrated at its Extraordinary Congress in Paris (July 2022) and includes seven review articles, commissioned and written by leading Russian experts in the respective fields. The topics of the articles were chosen so that the special issue reflects areas in which the most striking results have been achieved and which are specific to Russia. The authors have tried, as far as possible, to compare the topics, methodological approaches, and research results with the world mainstream. The main focus is on the last decade, 2010–2021;when necessary, the authors also have referred to earlier publications. The authors of most of the articles paid attention to the developments that arose in 2020–2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. © 2022, Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.