Socio-cultural development of Crimea: a multi- <i>scale analysis of territorial aspects</i>
The change in the geopolitical status of Crimea in 2014 was the impetus for changing the speed and vector of development of socio-cultural processes. In order to study the general patterns, we used the method of multi-scale geographical analysis, which consists in comparing a number of statistical indicators at the national and macro-regional levels. Thematic maps of the Atlas of Socio-Cultural Processes in Crimea (2020) were used to identify intraregional differences.The most important trends in the development of demographic processes in Crimea are: a slowdown in the rate of depopulation while maintaining negative natural growth and positive dynamics of the migration situation. The extremely unfavorable demographic situation is developing in the regions of the steppe Crimea, where the decline in social production has caused an outflow of the local population.In the development of the gender and age structure of the population of the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, there is a nationwide trend towards an aging population and an increase in the demographic burden on the working-age population. The level of urbanization in Crimea has decreased since 2014 due to the change in the status of urban-type settlements, but there is a tendency to concentrate the population in areas with recreational specialization, accompanied by the formation of agglomeration settlement structures.As in other regions of the South of Russia, Crimea is marked by the development of transformation processes of the sectoral structure of the economy. While maintaining a high share of the chemical industry, the leading positions are taken by the production of services (including transport, trade and tourist and recreational sphere), the supply of electricity, gas, steam and air-conditioned air, grain farming, and the food industry. A significant part of the region's economy is focused on direct and indirect servicing of the tourist flow. An urgent task is to find an effective specialization of the region in the territorial division of labor in the conditions of export restrictions.A comparative analysis of the state of the social sphere in Crimea showed a certain lag between the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol from many regions of the Russian Federation in terms of the level of development of social infrastructure and the quality of life of the population. In 2014-2019, there was a decrease in the unemployment rate and an increase in the monetary income of the population.