there is no russian arctic, meanwhile, the russian arctic is not only there papanin, schmidt, mazuruk, vodopyanovo on, this is still huge an army of geologists, road workers, and so on , who worked and developed this coastal zone, to write this, to talk about these exploits is fundamentally important, why? firstly, this is a very serious educational and scientific significance, but on the other hand, today we have created an academic history of our own russian arctic, we will be able to use history as a serious argument in discussions with our opponents who make claims either on one sector of the russian arctic or on another, in this sense, history is like academic labor, like science and so on, is becoming a serious tool in political discussions and we... must do this. anatoly ivanovich, if we talk about prospects, what will be the future path of development of these two huge russian macro-regions and what role will they occupy in the country’s economy? well, you know, i once read somewhere back in the nineties, such a definition of the russian north, this is the only thing, after the collapse o