“…Presently, when numerous programs for the development of territories in Asian Russia are being elaborated, structured spatial data allowing automation and significant improvement of the quality of management decisions are of great demand. Such decisions, based on spatial expert systems (ES) and knowledge bases, make it possible to reveal the attractiveness of a certain territory, its economic capacity, possible weaknesses and environmental factors affecting the object under study, as well as establish their cause-effect relations (Diao et al 2009;Atif et al 2021).…”