Siberian Federal University 
- Issue
- Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2020 13 (5)
- Authors
- Zamiatina, Nadezhda Yu.
- Contact information
- Zamiatina, Nadezhda Yu.: Lomonosov Moscow State University Moscow, Russian Federation; Laboratory of Historical Geography and Regionalism Tyumen State University Tyumen, Russian Federation; nadezam@yandeх.ru; ORCID: 0000-0002-4941-9027; Замятина, Н.Ю.: Московский государственный университет имени М.В. Ломоносова Российская Федерация, Москва; Лаборатория исторической географии и регионалистики Тюменского государственного университета Российская Федерация, Тюмень
- Keywords
- resource development; Northern Sea Route; export; transport; frontier; cyclical economic development; boom and bust; dependence on course; Jack London’s effect
- Abstract
The article considers the development trajectory of Igarka, a pioneer export port of the Northern Sea Route. The focus is made on analyzing the possibilities of preserving the town after the collapse of the town-forming enterprises. The main conceptual framework of the analysis is the Jack London’s hypothesis introduced by Alaskan economist Lee Husky (about potential of frontier cities for further development in the post-boom period). The findings are that the reason for the current economic and social crises in Igarka is not only the change in the conditions of timber export and navigation along the Northern Sea Route in the 1990s, but also the reduced economic functions of the town, as well as the decrease in the diversity of the urban environment as a whole, after paradoxically record production indicators in the last Soviet decades
- Pages
- 783–799
- DOI
- 10.17516/1997-1370-0607
- Paper at repository of SibFU
- https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/135307
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