Teaching courses
- Geography of Population and Demography Basics
- Economic Geography of Russia
- Economic Regions of Russia
- Special student internship in economic geography
- Contemporary Problems of Russia's Regional Development
- Social geography of cities
- Economic and Social Geography of Countries
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PositionAssociate professor, Department of Economic & Social Geography
E-mail: d.zhitin@spbu.ru
Phone: (812) 323-40-89
Education, scientific degrees and titles
- 1988; Geography; Leningrad State University, Department of Geography
- 1997; State and Municipal Administration; Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation (North-West Academy of Public Administration (NWPA)
- 2006, PhD in Geography, thesis on specialty 25.00.24 - economic, social, political and recreational geography, topic "Economic and geographical peculiarities of immigration policy formation in the Russian Federation"
- 2018; Received the title of Associate Professor in Economic, Social, Political and Recreational Geography
Research IDs
Research interestsPopulation geography; ethnic and confessional geography; rural and urban settlement; economic and social geography
Key publications
- Zhitin D.V., Kurochkin Y.N., Chistyakov K.V., Shendrik, A.V. The influence of natural-geographical and historical-demographic factors on the dynamics of the rural population of Krasnoyarsk Region / Proceedings of the Russian Geographical Society, Vol. 153, No. 4, 2021, pp. 3-31.
- Dmitry V. Zhitin, Stanislav S. Lachininskii, Anna A. Mikhaylova, Alexander V. Shendrik. Urban Transformation of a Post-Soviet Coastal City: The Case of Saint Petersburg // Geography, Environment, Sustainability. 2020. № 1. pp. 1-14.
- Zhitin D.V., Sechi G., Krisjane Z., Berzins M. Socio-Spatial Differentiation in Transition a Preliminary Comparative Analysis of Post-Soviet Saint Petersburg and Riga / Baltic Region, 2020, V.12, N 1, p. 85-114
- Zhitin D.V., Prokofiev A.D. Spatial Peculiarities of Changing Ethnic Identity of US Residents of European Origin // Izvestia of the Russian Geographical Society. 2019. Т. 151. № 3. с. 18-40.
- Anokhin A.A., Zhitin D.V. Population geography with the bases of demography: textbook. М., - 2018. Ser. 58. Bachelor's degree. Academic course. 279 с.
- Zhitin D.V., Ivanova A.A. Demographic development of the Baltic states. Scientific reports of the Russian Association of Baltic Studies. Series 2. Social and economic development. Vol. 3. 2017. - 112 с.
- Vykhovanets O., Gradirovsky S.N., Zhitin D.V., Lopukhina T., Mkrtchyan N.V. Immigration and naturalization policy in Russia: state of affairs and directions for development. Eurasia Heritage Foundation, Centre for Strategic Studies of the Volga Federal District. М.,- 2005. 309 с.
Awards and honorary titles
- He was awarded the medal "In Memory of the 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg" (2005) and a Certificate of Merit from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (2014).
Other professional activities
- Member of the Russian Geographical Society (1987)
- Member of the Association of Russian Social Geographers (2014)
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