Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series

Title:
Specific Kaliningrad character of the Russian identity

Authors

Andrey Klemeshev - Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Institute for Human Sciences, A. Nevskogo, 14, 236016 Kaliningrad, Russian Federation; phone/fax: +74 012 465 917; e-mail: AKlemeshev@kantiana.ru

Gennady Fedorov - Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Institute for Environmental Management, Spatial Development, and Urban Planning, Zoologicheskaya 2, 236000 Kaliningrad, Russian Federation; phone: +74 012 313 350, fax +74 012 466 313, e-mail: GFedorov@kantiana.ru (corresponding author)

Efim Fidrya - Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Institute for Human Sciences, 236016 Kaliningrad, Russian Federation; A. Nevskogo, 14, 236 016 Kaliningrad, Russian Federation; phone/fax: +74 012 465 917; e-mail: EFidrya@kantiana.ru

Keywords
territorial community, territorial identity, Kaliningrad region, exclave

Abstract
There are different levels of territorial identity perceived as a sense of belonging to a particular social and territorial community. People residing in any region identify themselves with these levels to a different degree. Since 2001, the authors have been doing sociological research into the territorial identity of the population of the Kaliningrad region, which became a Russia's exclave after the demise the USSR. The research shows that residents of the Kaliningrad region associate themselves with different territorial communities to a varying degree starting with an ever strengthening sense of national identity, followed by the regional and local identity. The sense of macro-regional (European) and global identity is significantly lower.

Pages:
47-55

DOI:
10.1515/bog-2017-0033

BGSS No. 38 (2017)