“…However, nowadays the northern territories abroad, especially in terms of social sector development, have significantly outstripped the development of the Russian North. In the Russian Federation infrastructure of the Soviet period is still in use in many localities, and this leads to quite predictable reduction of many social and economic indicators (Samarina, Skufina & Samarin, 2016;Silin, 2015;Skufina, Baranov, Samarina & Shatalova, 2015;Samarina, Skufina, Samarin & Ushakov, 2018).…”