AN ISSUE OF RESEARCHING AND FORMING TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIA

Annotation

There is a number of scientific publications and studies, which are dedicated to categories such as «state space» and «territory». Multidisciplinary approach in a framework of human sciences plays another significant role in researching territorial development. Hence, these categories can be researched within regional studies, economy, geography, regional geography, ethnography and other similar studies. Political analysis gives an opportunity to investigate features of territorial development, which makes possible to analyze and comparecurrent strategies and methods of researching territorial development. The goal of this article is to find out the main content of scientific publications of Russian scientists, which concern an issue of territorial development of Russia in the end of XIX-XX centuries.