A Word about the "Russian North" Concept

Annotation

The purpose of the review is to study the essence of the concept “Russian North” in the available written sources and in various branches of scientific knowledge. The historical process of the article is localized in a vast space from the Velikiy Novgorod, the Novgorod Veche Republic to Karelia, the coasts of the White and Barents Seas — the Arkhangelsk and Kola North, the NorthEast (Komi). The Russian North is understood as a hybrid concept that requires interpretation of economics, politics, society, culture, archeology, history, geography, ethnology, ethnography, philosophy, philology and other branches of scientific knowledge. The conceptual content is associated with modern understanding of historical evolution from the past to the present as a result of the thesaurus of knowledge accumulated over centuries.

About authors

Yury F. Lukin, Dr. Sci. (Hist.), Professor, Honoured Worker of Higher Education of Russian Federation
lukin.yury@mail.ru, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3307-4586 
Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Naberezhnaya Severnoy Dviny, 17, Arkhangelsk, 163002, Russia

Keywords

Russian North, Novgorod Veche Republic, archeology, image-geographical map, historical and cultural groups, cultural space, civilizational wave

DOI

10.37482/issn2221-2698.2022.48.275

UDC

[94:902:904:913:930.85](470.1/.2)(045)