Dmitry V. Zhitin

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

Position

Associate 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 interests

Population geography; ethnic and confessional geography; rural and urban settlement; economic and social geography


Key publications

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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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