Gusakov T. Yu. Crimean dachas: History and the current development of rural-urban space // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2025. V.10. №3. P. 261-288.
EDN: OUCJGC
Annotation
The article considers the dacha movement on the Crimean Peninsula as a unique phenomenon in the development of rural areas under the transformation of spatial organization of society. The author reconstructs the historical evolution of dacha settlement — from the first estates and dachas of the Russian Empire to the numerous gardening and dacha cooperatives in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Based on pre-revolutionary and contemporary statistical, cartographic and legal sources and field studies, the author identifies the main stages and mechanisms in the formation of the dacha landscape in Crimea, its morphological and functional features, focusing on the current role of non-commercial associations as integrating rural territories into urban lifestyles, mechanisms of social mobility and multi-locality. The article considers institutional uncertainty, land fragmentation, infrastructural challenges and environmental risks associated with the uneven and often spontaneous dacha expansion. Dacha and gardening settlements have become an integral part of the settlement system, affecting landscapes, land use and social structure, promoting the development of new types of rural-urban communities and suburbanization. The article summarizes trends of the territorial distribution of dacha associations, provides examples of local practices and settlement transformation, stresses the need to consider the features of dacha development in regional policy and spatial planning, to ensure an inventory and institutionalization of such settlement forms for the sustainable development of Crimea.
Keywords
Population geography, dachas, rural settlement, suburbanization, ruralurban communities, spatial mobility, spatial planning, informal settlements, Crimea.
About the author
Timur Y. Gusakov, Researcher, Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; Vernadskogo Prosp., 82, Moscow, 119571, Russia.
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- Submitted Wednesday, 21 May 2025
- Reviewed Thursday, 03 July 2025
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Gusakov T.Yu. The multistructure of the contemporary ethnic region in Russia: Archaization, agrarianization and migration (on the example of the Republic of Tyva) // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2019. V.4. №4. P. 76-95.
DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2019-4-4-76-95
Annotation
The article considers the features of the contemporary rural development of the Russian ethnic region on the example of the Republic of Tyva. In 2017, according to the official statistics, it was the poorest Russian region by the share of the rural population below the poverty line. This situation was determined by a number of factors exacerbating Tuva’s economic depression: its being a periphery and its remoteness from economic centers, stagnation and impossibility to revitalize the industrial complex, destruction of the agricultural sector, a high share of the shadow economy, and so on. The reason for the economic stagnation is the agrarian path of Tyva chosen by the regional elites, which consists of the support for small archaic agricultural production as an ethnic type of activity. The article describes the vectors of the contemporary rural development of the Republic of Tyva, its economic and ethnic-social features, and changes determined by the large transfers from the federal budget to the regional economy. Today, there is spatial polarization and rural depopulation in the depressed agrarian regions, and the cities remain the main centers of population concentration (mainly the city of Kyzyl).
Keywords
agriculture, rural settlement, ethnic region, migration, spatial mobility, Republic of Tyva
About the author
Timur Y. Gusakov, Junior Researcher, Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. 119571, Moscow, Vernadskogo Prosp., 82.
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