This is a different statistic, presumably, from the State Statistical Committee data. In any case, the not-so-suprising leader is Primorsky Kray (Vladivostok is the capital there) with 580 cars per 1000 residents. In the top five are also Kamchatka (428), Kaluzhskaya Oblast (347), Murmanskaya Oblast (327) and Pskovskaya Oblast (312). The city of Moscow is in the 8th place with 299, which is slightly less than Kaliningradskaya (309) and Moscow oblast (307). The bottom of the list are Ivanovskaya (158) and Tulskaya (161) oblasts. A question for geographers to think about: can you explain why these specific regions made it to the top (or bottom) respectively.
This is a really interesting question. Does it have to do with the fact that it is closest to Japan and the Korean Peninsula?
ReplyDeleteYes. Hint: All the top 5 regions have sea ports.
DeleteDr. Blinnikov, What impact do you feel the protests will have on Presidential elections next month?
ReplyDeleteI am not a political geographer, so I can only speculate. The impact will be that Mr. Putin will not win as easily in the first round (if at all), but more importantly when he wins he will have to implement some of the reforms that the protesting middle class wants - e.g., more political choice in the next Duma elections, election of governors, crack down hard on pervasive corruption, etc. Needless to say, none of these in themselves will make him in any way a better choice for the people who got tired of his now almost 11-year reign as President and now PM.
DeleteThanks. I found this election very interesting, as usual!
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