title: Modern Russian Black Sea region: approaches to delimitation and structuring
abstract: The development of the Russian Federation as a maritime power is largely connected with its positions in the marine waters surrounding the country, with marine economic activity taking into account their natural resource and geopolitical specifics, as well as with the socio-economic situation on the sea coasts under Russian jurisdiction. This initiates the solution of a wide range of research tasks aimed at identifying specific socio-geographical structures and processes in the land–sea contact 
journal: Regional nye issledovaniya