Вестник Кольского научного центра РАН. 2010, №3.

V.V. Didyk SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIAN NORTHEN TOWNS AND MANAGERIAL TECHNIQUES OF ITS ACHIEVEMENT The paper considers and analyzes the significance and current preconditions for sustainable development of Russian northern towns. The information base for the analysis are both results of the questionnaire survey of towns leaders - participants of the Russian “Union of Towns of Circumpolar North”, as well as statistic indicators on socio-economic development of the towns. The analysis showed that so far in the Russian urban settlements, including northern municipalities, no necessary institutional precondition for a broad movement for adoption and realization of sustainable development strategies according to the principles of the “Local Agenda 21” have been created. The paper proves the necessity of strategic management methods use by the bodies of local government alongside with the state governmental support for achievement of sustainable development goals by the urban settlements. Keywords: sustainable development, Russian northern towns, socio-economic conditions, strategic management. V.K. Zhirov, O.B. Gontar, E.A. Sviatkovskaya, M.P. Sovetova, I.N. Mazurenko NEW DIRECTIONS OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY IN THE POLAR ALPINE BOTANICAL GARDEN-INSTITUTE The educational activity of the Polar Alpine Botanical Garden-Institute (PABGI) has been significantly improved in the last decade. In addition to usually provided lectures and excursions, two Educational Research Centers, the Museum for Botanical Research History in the Murmansk region, and a Summer Camp for students practice were established at the Garden. The last achievement of this activity is related to the ecological and horticultural therapy. Today the rehabilitation programs for people with mental and neurological pathologies have been already worked out and are used at the PABGI. This direction of the PABGI activity development corresponds to the increase of the society interest in traditional medicine methods. Keywords: Polar Alpine Botanical Garden & Institute, Education activity, Ecological therapy, Horticultural therapy, Rehabilitation programs, Neurological and Mental pathologies. V.A. Zuckerman, E.S. Goryachevskaya TECHNOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION OF ECONOMY OF NORTHERN REGIONS Basic challenges and possibilities connected to the technological modernization of the North economy are considered. It was shown that the model of economy development should be based on domestic production of scientific knowledge and innovations, active exports of technologies and final products. Ways of improving the system of state management of carrying out structural transformations were suggested. Evaluation of the innovation potential level of regions as one of the instruments determining technological modernization directions was carried out, and a set of measures for increasing its level was suggested. Keywords: technological upgrading, innovative development, the North, innovation potential, industry, innovation system. NEW BOOKS Neoarchaean enderbite-granulite complex of the Pulozero - Polnek-Tundra region, Central- Kola block: stages and thermodynamic regime of evolution (Kola Peninsula) / L.S. Petrovskaya, F.P. Mitrofanov. T.B. Bayanova, V.P. Petrov, M.N. Petrovsky. Apatity: Print. Kola Science Centre RAS, 2010. 78 p. The book presents data obtained in the course of a comprehensive geological, petrological, and isotope geochemical research of the rocks and minerals from the enderbite-granulite complex of the Pulozero - Polnek-Tundra region (Central-Kola block) to provide a basis for reconstructing the sequence of endogenous processes, P-T conditions, and evolutional duration of the enderbite-granulite complex in the interval of 2.72 - 1.81 Ga. The following three stages of metamorphism have been established in the Kola Group gneisses: I- early granulitic (2.72 Ga); I - superimposed amphibolitic (2.57 Ga); III - retrograde low- temperature amphibolitic (2.54 Ga). The early granulitic (I) and superimposed amphibolitic (II) metamorphic events in the Kola Group gneisses are separated by the enderbite formation (2.66 Ga) and later transformation of the enderbites into cummingtonite-biotite orthogneisses (2.64 Ga). Ultrametamorphism in the Kola Group gneisses was accompanied by injections of anatectic veins of microcline-plagioclase granite with garnet and sillimanite (2.55 Ga). The tectonomagmatic activity in this region culminated by the injection of veined leucogranites (ca. 2.50 Ga) that cut the Kola Group gneisses, enderbites, and cummingtonite- biotite orthogneisses. The Sm-Nd and Rb-Sr research data show that the enderbite-granulite complex was affected by Palaeoproterozoic events that disturbed the isotope systems ca. 2.50 and 1.81 billion years ago. For specialists in geology, petrology and isotope-geochronology, as well as high school students of the geological faculties. 117