Large business in the coastal zones of Russia: features and factors of localisation

Russia’s evident ‘turn to the sea’ as regards the economy, the infrastructure, and population distribution patterns is very much in line with the interests and projects of large businesses. This change manifests itself in the development of port and logistics complexes, the port industry, the con...

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Main Author: Druzhinin A. G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University 2019-12-01
Series:Baltic Region
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Online Access:https://journals.kantiana.ru/upload/iblock/9f8/9_%D0%94%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD_136-151.pdf
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description Russia’s evident ‘turn to the sea’ as regards the economy, the infrastructure, and population distribution patterns is very much in line with the interests and projects of large businesses. This change manifests itself in the development of port and logistics complexes, the port industry, the construction of offshore pipelines, more active offshore oil and gas production, the growing demographic potential of coastal cities, etc. This article aims to explore the localisation of large businesses in Russian coastal zones and to analyse the ‘coastalisation’ of the country’s largest companies. It is shown that ‘coastalisation’ has taken place in forty-two of Russia’s top 100 companies, as rated by the Russian Business Channel. Another objective of the study is to identify large businesses’ industrial and regional priorities in the maritime economy and investigate how they are transformed under the influence of geopolitical and geo-economic factors. Amid active Eurasian integration, which includes the Greater Eurasia project, big businesses are spurring the development of maritime economic complexes and the formation of sea-land economic structures, including cross-border ones. The study identifies which national coastal zones are most attractive to Russian large businesses. Special attention is paid here to the Baltic Sea and the exclave of Kaliningrad where both local (Sodruzhestvo and Avtotor) and interregional/transnational companies (United Shipbuilding Corporation, Gazprom, LUKOIL, etc.) are benefitting from the coastal factor in the socio-economic development.
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spelling doaj.art-fc1cf7da2eac4db7abf4756127918c1c2022-12-21T17:49:10ZengImmanuel Kant Baltic Federal UniversityBaltic Region2079-85552310-05242019-12-0111413615110.5922/2079-8555-2019-4-8Large business in the coastal zones of Russia: features and factors of localisationDruzhinin A. G.0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1642-6335Southern Federal University, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Russia’s evident ‘turn to the sea’ as regards the economy, the infrastructure, and population distribution patterns is very much in line with the interests and projects of large businesses. This change manifests itself in the development of port and logistics complexes, the port industry, the construction of offshore pipelines, more active offshore oil and gas production, the growing demographic potential of coastal cities, etc. This article aims to explore the localisation of large businesses in Russian coastal zones and to analyse the ‘coastalisation’ of the country’s largest companies. It is shown that ‘coastalisation’ has taken place in forty-two of Russia’s top 100 companies, as rated by the Russian Business Channel. Another objective of the study is to identify large businesses’ industrial and regional priorities in the maritime economy and investigate how they are transformed under the influence of geopolitical and geo-economic factors. Amid active Eurasian integration, which includes the Greater Eurasia project, big businesses are spurring the development of maritime economic complexes and the formation of sea-land economic structures, including cross-border ones. The study identifies which national coastal zones are most attractive to Russian large businesses. Special attention is paid here to the Baltic Sea and the exclave of Kaliningrad where both local (Sodruzhestvo and Avtotor) and interregional/transnational companies (United Shipbuilding Corporation, Gazprom, LUKOIL, etc.) are benefitting from the coastal factor in the socio-economic development.https://journals.kantiana.ru/upload/iblock/9f8/9_%D0%94%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD_136-151.pdfcoastal zonecoastal citiesrussialarge businessmaritime complexregional developmentbaltic region
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Large business in the coastal zones of Russia: features and factors of localisation
Baltic Region
coastal zone
coastal cities
russia
large business
maritime complex
regional development
baltic region
title Large business in the coastal zones of Russia: features and factors of localisation
title_full Large business in the coastal zones of Russia: features and factors of localisation
title_fullStr Large business in the coastal zones of Russia: features and factors of localisation
title_full_unstemmed Large business in the coastal zones of Russia: features and factors of localisation
title_short Large business in the coastal zones of Russia: features and factors of localisation
title_sort large business in the coastal zones of russia features and factors of localisation
topic coastal zone
coastal cities
russia
large business
maritime complex
regional development
baltic region
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