URBANISATION AS ECONOMY: DEPARTMENTAL TOWNS OF OIL PRODUCING REGIONS OF THE WESTERN SIBERIA  (1960's-1980's) Cover Image

УРБАНИЗАЦИЯ КАК ХОЗЯЙСТВО: ВЕДОМСТВЕННЫЕ ГОРОДА НЕФТЕДОБЫВАЮЩИХ РАЙОНОВ ЗАПАДНОЙ СИБИРИ (1960 – 1980 гг.)
URBANISATION AS ECONOMY: DEPARTMENTAL TOWNS OF OIL PRODUCING REGIONS OF THE WESTERN SIBERIA (1960's-1980's)

Author(s): I.N. Stasj
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Energy and Environmental Studies, Regional Geography, Environmental Geography, Social development, Rural and urban sociology, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of the arts, business, education, Economic development, Environmental interactions, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Издатель Наталья Докучаева
Keywords: departments; departmental towns; oil industry workers towns; urban environment; identity; towns’ resettlements system; urbanisation;

Summary/Abstract: In this article the urbanisation process in the oil and gas producing regions of the Western Siberia in the period of oil and gas exploration (1960’s - 1980’s) is analysed. The region urbanisation is treated on three meta-levels – the organisation of towns’ resettlement system, urban environment formation, towns’ identity designing. Interaction and confrontation between main subjects of urbanisation – departmental and towns’ elite and discourses – took place exactly on these meta-levels. The author comes to a conclusion that urbanisation of oil and gas producing regions of the Western Siberia was of departmental origin and matter: resettlement system was adjusted to the town-planning experience of departments; urban environment was formed as the mixture of isolated departmental economies; towns served as “seigneurial oikos”. There was no towns’ identity, and identification of towns’ citizens was principally based upon the industrial characteristic.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 64-71
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Russian