Department of Economic And Social Geography of Russia
The  Department of Economic And Social Geography of Russia () is one of the oldest and the largest  Russian educational and research centers in economic geography and regional science

History 

The Department of Economic And Social Geography of Russia is a department of the geographical faculty in Moscow State University. It was founded in 1929 by Nikolay Baranskiy as a chair of economic geography on geographical branch of the mehaniko-mathematical faculty. Since 1992 it has been called the department of economic and social geography of Russia. The first head of the department was its founder, N. Baranskiy, professor of the faculty and member-correspondent in Russian Academy of Sciences. Throughout its 80-year history the department has been headed by professor P. Stepanov (1941–1943; 1946–1949), Julian G. Saushkin (1349–1381), A. T. Khruschev (1981–2000), Vladimir E. Shuvalov (2000-2012) and V. Baburin (since July 2012). Scientists of the chair have created a school of thought known as the Soviet Regional (Rayon) school of economic geography. Its theoretical bases have been made by professors Nikolay Baranskiy and Nikolay Kolosovskiy and were developed by J. Saushkin's works. Staff 

The staff includes 6 doctors, 14 candidates of sciences, 6 professors, 9 senior lecturers, 1 assistant, 6 scientific employees and 5 leading engineers. Professors:

 Evgeny Pertsik
 Vyacheslav Baburin
 Natalia Zubarevich
 Alexander Alekseev 
 Alexander Pilyasov

Specialization 

 General questions of social and economic geography
 Economic geography
 Social geography
 Political geography
 Population and Geography of migration
 Geography of branches of key spheres of economy
 Wildlife management and the economic organization of territory
 Geourbanistics
 Regional problems of social and economic development
 Territorial planning, designing and management
 Regional policy

Leading directions of scientific research 

 Evolution of territorial organisation of society
 Transformation of social and economic space of Russia
 Social and economic development of regions of Russia and the new independent states
 Complex economic-geographical researches of regions
 Social and economic and environmental problems of development of cities
 Territorial planning and designing
 Territorial administration and self-management
 Theory and methodology of economic and social geography. See also

 MSU Faculty of Geography
 Nikolay Baranskiy
 Nikolay Kolosovskiy
 Vyacheslav Baburin

External links

* The Official site of the Department

* The Information on a site of Geographical faculty of Moscow State University
Official site of the faculty of Geography
The Information on a site of Geographical faculty of Moscow State University

References

Moscow State University
Geography education in Russia
Education in the Soviet Union
Education in Moscow