Krasnopolsky Boris Kh.

This article summarizes the author's research on spatial and economic processes occurring in the high-latitude territories of the Far East, which historically have deep reproductive and infrastructural ties, allowing them to be considered a single economic enclave. The theoretical and methodological framework for this article, as well as for this previous research series, utilized methodological approaches from theories of spatial economics, infrastructure, systems analysis, inversion processes, cluster analysis, the functioning of formal and informal institutions, and others. The author's research findings have been discussed over several years in a number of papers published in various specialized journals. This article provides scientific and practical evidence that, at the current stage, the leading sources of additional emergent effects in the deeply integrated spatial-economic entity taking shape here are primarily factors such as the accelerated formation of exogenous infrastructure elements in its constituent territories, the mitigation of counter-vector inversion processes, structural transformations in specialized extractive industries, and the synchronization of formal and informal governance institutions. The main conclusion drawn from the research is that, at the current strategic stage of the spatial and economic development of the high-latitude territories of the Far Eastern macroregion under study, significant corrective actions are needed to address the functioning of the governing institutions within these territories. These adjustments should be made taking into account the rapidly developing integration processes within these territories and the fundamental transformations in their spatial configuration, resulting in the formation of a distinct Northeastern mesoregion within this zone. In the case of these territories, their significant importance in strengthening the country's raw materials potential at the national and international levels, as well as their geostrategic and cross-border location, must be taken into account. In further research on the Far Eastern zone under consideration, it is necessary to examine the issue of the structure of a possible integration management body, the mechanisms of which, according to the author’s evidence, should be based on the priority of state-planned methods over market approaches.

The purpose of study is to identify the directions of transformation of institutional structures and mechanisms of the Arctic Territories of the Russian Far East management on the basis of a number of international and domestic scientifi works analysis, as well as using the results of the author's earlier developments. As a concussion of the study, the author on theoretical and methodological level substantiates the need to form a «mesocluster» as a complex of specialized industries specifi for these Territories. It will act as a structure-forming basis for further institutional transformation in management of the Arctic Territories of the Russian Far East. The emphasis on solving specifi problems of coordinating formal and informal institutions in managing the development of the«mesocluster» and forming spatial-economic entity has been made.

The article deals with the processes of spatial and economic development and ensuring the geostrategic stability of the North Arctic territories of the Far East at the present stage of cardinal transformations in this area. The author reveals signifi dependencies of solution of these problems on the role of the main elements of critical infrastructure of the region under the study, both nationally and geopolitically, taking into account its cross-border position in the Pacifi sector of the world Arctic. The necessity of developing a special scientifi and applied program as an institutional structure for strengthening the mechanisms for managing these processes in the newly formed North-Eastern mesoregion both in the current and strategic periods of spatial transformations in the region is substantiated.