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On May 13, 2026, at a meeting of the Dissertation Council of MSU.052.6 at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, he successfully defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Economics in the specialty 5.2.3 – Regional and Sectoral Economics (Regional Economics) head. The Center for the Study of Spatial Development of socio-economic systems of the VolSC RAS, V.N.S. Sergey Aleksandrovich Kozhevnikov. Scientific consultant – Doctor of Economics, Professor T.V. Uskova.

Sergey Alexandrovich graduated from the graduate school of the VolSC RAS in 2014, defended his PhD thesis in 2015, and in 2026 – his doctoral thesis on the topic "Development of methodology for strategizing spatial integration of regional socio-economic systems." Today, S.A. Kozhevnikov is an accomplished scientist in the field of regional economics.

The staff of the VolSC RAS sincerely congratulates Sergey Alexandrovich on his high achievement!

Victory Day is our common heritage and pride, a holiday for all time.

The Great Victory, a symbol of national unity, military glory and valor, is forever inscribed in the heroic annals of Russia.
This holiday is dear to every Russian. The memory of those distant events is sacred, it lives in our hearts, it unites us.
May the memory of this victory be an eternal example for everyone, an example of courage and perseverance.
Employees of the Russian Academy of Sciences VolSC join the "Immortal Regiment" march.
The Immortal Regiment is a memory that we must carry forward for many years to come, passing the story of Victory through generations. Behind each portrait there is a fate, a life, a story that cannot be forgotten.

We congratulate you on Victory Day and wish you peace, kindness, joy and prosperity!

On May 6, 2026, Alexandra Anatolyevna Shabunova, Director of the Vologda Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Economics, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, celebrates her jubilee birthday. A.A. Shabunova is a well–known Russian demographer, specialist in regional economics, has made a significant contribution to the development of the theory of public health and demographic development of territories, justified the need to take into account demographic trends and their factors in the strategic planning of the development of Russia and its regions.

The head of the Scientific and Technical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ph.D. N.N. Boitsova, became a mentor and educator at the District Meeting "Development Trajectories", which took place from April 27 to April 29 in Yekaterinburg. The organizer of the event, which met the objectives of the national project "Youth and Children", was the public organization "Movement of the First". It was attended by 150 people from the Ural and Northwestern Federal Districts, including mentors of primary departments and flagship projects, students, counselors, and parents who carry out mentoring activities.

On April 29, 2026, a meeting of the Joint Scientific Council of the VolSC RAS was held, at which a report was presented by A.A. Sokolova, Ph.D. in Economics, "The causes and socio-demographic consequences of otkhodnichestvo in the context of regulating migration processes in modern Russia."

The journal was founded in 2008, and its founder is the Vologda Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The publication is included in the first level of the Unified State List of Scientific Publications and is indexed in the databases Web of Science (ESCI), RSCI, Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation (K1), White List (level 3). The English-language version of the magazine has been published since 2009.

The staff of the VolSC RAS presented the results of their research at the V International Scientific and Practical Conference "Social Aspects of regional development in the context of digitalization of the economy and society", which was held on April 16-17, 2026 in St. Petersburg. The event was organized by the Institute of Regional Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Department of Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Economics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, the Northwestern Institute of Management of the RANEPA, the Center for Creative Industries of the St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design, the Institute of System Research in Agriculture of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and Vitebsk State University named after P.M. Masherova.

The results of the research conducted by the Russian Academy of Sciences under the grant from the Russian National Research Foundation "Formation of ecosystems for the sustainable development of local territories as a response to global and regional challenges of our time" and the state assignment topic "Socio-cultural development and sociodynamics of public-state relations in Russian regions" are presented by the head of the Center for Socio-Cultural and Political Studies, Candidate of Economics K.E. Kosygina, Senior Researcher. Ph.D. in Economics G.V. Belekhova, Ph.D. S.A.V. Korolenko and Ph.D. S. A.E. Zhdanova at the International Scientific Conference "Cities in the Modern World: Trajectories of development and transformation" – VI Geo-urban readings, which took place from April 23 to April 25 at the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow).

A.E. Zhdanova, PhD, Center for Sociocultural and Political Studies, VolSC RAS, became the winner among graduate students in the XXII All-Russian N.I. Kareev Competition for the best work in sociology, presenting her research "Cultural and leisure preferences of the Vologda Oblast population."

On April 23, 2026, at the meeting of the permanent seminar "Problems of a comprehensive study of regional economic and social processes" (head – Corresponding Member V.A. Ilyin), A.A. Korzina, M.Sc. of the Center for Socio-Cultural and Political Studies, presented a report in English "The problem of inequality in the consumption of electronic public services by the population", which identified socio-demographic inequalities in the consumption of this type of service, as well as identified the categories of the population that are most susceptible to digital exclusion.

The research results of the VolSC RAS, obtained as part of the implementation of the Russian Science Foundation grant "Conceptual foundations and practices for achieving the digital well-being of the older generation in the field of consumption", were presented by the project leader, head of the Center for Socio-Demographic Research, PhD M.A. Gruzdeva, within the framework of the VI St. Petersburg International Gerontological Forum, which took place on April 24, 2026. in St. Petersburg at the site of the A.I. Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University. The forum was organized by the Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University and the Gerontological Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

On April 23, 2026, the regional Universal Scientific Library named after I.V. Babushkin hosted the awarding ceremony for the winners of the Vologda Book of the Year 2025 contest, which was held in Vologda for the 15th time. More than a hundred publishers, authors and creative teams presented their works. A total of 289 books participated in the competition. The winner in the "Best Scientific Publication" nomination was the joint monograph of the Central Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Social Sciences of Jiangxi (China) "Cooperation between China and Russia in the field of tourism: practice and Prospects", prepared under the scientific supervision of Xiao Hongbo, President of the Academy of Social Sciences of Jiangxi Province, Li Xiaoyu, Director of the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Social Sciences of Jiangxi Province, Doctor of Economics, Corresponding member. RAS V.A. Ilyina, Doctor of Economics A.A. Shabunova. The book analyzes the state and trends in the development of the tourism industry in Russia and China, substantiates a methodological approach to assess the role of tourism in the country's economy, and examines successful practices of Russian-Chinese cooperation in the field of tourism.

At the invitation of Ural State University of Economics, First Deputy Director of the VolSC RAS, PhD in Economics L.V. Babich joined the jury of the international research competition "Theory of Noonomics as a key to the study of socio-economic transformations of the 21st century", the final of which was held within the framework of the XVI Eurasian Economic Youth Forum on April 22, 2026. This year, 87 scientific papers were submitted to the competition. The participants explored the issues of transition to a new second-generation industrial society, the dialectic of simulative and non-simulative needs, the role of artificial intelligence in shaping a new economic paradigm, the transformation of labor in the era of the sixth technological order and the deep integration of production, science and education.

On April 22, 2026, for the first time, an educational event for young scientists and anyone interested in current issues of modern science was held at the VolSC RAS as part of the large-scale All-Russian lecture hall of the Russian Science Foundation. The staff of the VolSC RAS presented the research results obtained during the implementation of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research grants "Formation of ecosystems for the sustainable development of local territories as a response to global and regional challenges of our time" (PhD in Economics A.V. Popov) and "Transformation of value chains in the Russian economy in new geopolitical conditions: Intersectoral, sectoral and corporate cross-section" (D.B. Kuvalin, Doctor of Economics).

The XI International Scientific and practical Internet conference "Problems of Economic Growth and Sustainable Development of Territories", which is a regional venue for the VIII Moscow Academic Economic Forum, will be held from May 18 to 21, 2026. More than 300 researchers take part in the event annually, including sociologists, economists and representatives of related sciences from scientific institutions and universities in the regions of Russia and neighboring countries (Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Tajikistan, Bashkortostan).

We invite our colleagues to take part in the conference, which will become a platform for a joint discussion of the factors of increasing economic growth and sustainable development of territories in the context of geopolitical and geo-economic turbulence.