«Город окраин»: территориальная сегрегация и ее (вос)производство в постсоветском Улан-Удэ
“City of outskirts”: territorial segregation and its (re)production in the post-soviet Ulan-Ude

Summary/Abstract: In the article the focus of attention is given to the territorial segregation of Ulan-Ude (capital of Buryat Republic, Siberian federal district) and its political (re)production in the post-soviet period. In the first part of the article forming and change of physical and symbolic borders of the central (historical) part of Ulan-Ude and its outskirts in the historical context are shown. The second part draws attention to (re)production and fiction of the spatial stereotypes of the territorial segregation of the city in the modern administrative discourse. The author analyses the official classifications of urban outskirts, such as "distant microareas", "peripheral urban settlements" and "peripheral rural settlements". The author’s conclusion is that territorial segregation of the city the post-soviet period reproduce to a great extent the tendencies and ideas, which had been worked out in the soviet and period of the city’s development.

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