Opportunities for Sustainable Development in Depressed Northern Regions

Observing the world’s history, the cases when some regions become socio-economically degraded some day because of the limited effective resources are not rare. People usually abandoned such regions if the more favorable conditions had not been provided by the government. Such people’s behavior could be regarded as normal in the market environment. As for the Tuguro-Chumicansky Raion in the Khabarovk Kray populated mainly with indigenous peoples, we can state that there is no need in governmental support to keep the people from abandoning the place where they belonged to, because they don’t want to do so and ready to reduce their needs but not to abandon. They will live in poverty ruining themselves by drinking, hence approaching to the verge of extinction. Therefore, the objectives of the public support aimed at such communities are to solve social problems, especially and at first those concerning their survival. It will obviously take a long time to realize this new way of social development, but we will have to come it through in order to stabilize the situation.