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The Faculty of GeographyTHE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY

The Department of Economic and Social Geography
The Department of Geoecology
The Department of Physical Geography and Oceanology
The Department of General Geography

 

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The Head of the Department

N.V. Bagrov, doctor, professor, assistant professor, candidate of geographical sciences.
Phone: : +38 (0652) 23-03-54
E-mail: bagrov@tnu.crimea.ua

Specialization

The Department has three specialisations: economy and social geography; recreational economy, tourism and excursion business; and country studies and international tourist management. 20 special courses are offered to students here, including economic statistics, fundamentals of market economy, marketing and management, excursion and museum studies, recreational and hotel business, fundamentals of geopolitics, etc.

Faculty Members

Assistant professors: I.M.Yakovenko, N.S.Sakhnova, M.V.Kuznetsov, V.M.Shumskiy, G.A.Galukh, S.N.Kiselev, A.B.Shvets, and L.V.Ozhegova;
Assistants: G.G.Ferbey and G.A.Sazonova.
They lecture eight core courses: fundamentals of social geography, economic and social geography of Ukraine, geography of world economy, regional economic geography, geography of population with fundamentals of ethnography, technological and economic fundamentals of production, geography teaching methods.

Areas of Research

iIssues related to improving efficiency of natural resources utilisation and territorial organisation of sociogeographic systems of the South economic region of Ukraine and the Crimea; recreational geography; organisation of tourism and excursions; and evaluation of recreational resources and planning. A new academic school of political geography is developing at this Faculty in the recent years to cover such areas as electoral geography, regionalisation, globalistics, and geopolitics.

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