Degtyarev Danil S.,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The Early Industrial Stage of the Russian Urban Space Development (on the Materials of Tomsk Region)
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2018-2-7
The author propounds a theoretical framework for the Russian urban space development throughout Russia’s entire history. While cities were turning from fortified places into centers of high-tech industry and trade, the structure of urban space also changed. The author formulates his own definition of urban space and proposes four stages of its evolution: traditional, regular, early industrial and industrial. Each stage corresponds to a certain leading function that determines how objects are located over the urban territory. The military function is characteristic of the traditional cities, the administrative function – of the regular stage, functions of trade and transport are typical of the early industrial stage while the industrial stage is characterized by the manufacturing function. The author pays special attention to the early industrial stage; defines eight indicators of this stage of urban space development. These include reduction of regulating role of general planning; growing number of artificial toponyms; emergence of “large economic territories” at the center, separation of trade and administrative centers, dormitory suburbs and industrial suburbs, increasing role of the suburbs. The hypothesis is verified by evidence from the Wes-Siberian cities of Tomsk, Barnaul, Biysk and Novonikolaevsk. These were the most developed cities in this region representing different patterns of the Russian provincial cities’ evolution in the second half of the 19th – beginning of the 20th century. Nearly all features of the early industrial stage of urban space development can be found in each of the four cities. It would therefore be desirable to apply the hypothesis of the early industrial stage of urban space development to other cities of the late imperial Russia.
Publishing: 19/12/2018
How to cite: Degtyarev D.S. The Early Industrial Stage of the Russian Urban Space Development (on the Materials of Tomsk Region // Historical Courier, 2018, # 2. Article 7. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2018/ISTKURIER-2018-2-07.pdf
Links: Issue 2 2018
Keywords: historical urban studies; city area, suburb; toponym; economic function of city, Russian city; Siberian city