REGIONAL PROBLEM

In the vicinity of Svobodny in the Amur Region, there are the world’s largest natural gas processing and helium production enterprises. In this regard, the relevance of an objective assessment of the environmental situation is especially important. In the work, the author defines indicator properties of the Scots pine natural regeneration. He gives the analysis of undergrowth parameters in areas with different degrees of anthropogenic load. It is established that the indicators of the number of specimens per unit area, age structure, growth and vitality of Scots pine in the vicinity of Svobodny can have an indicative value for environmental monitoring of the territory.

Among other countries, the Russian Federation also has an officially adopted sustainable development strategy covering a block of political, social, economic and environmental items. The last ones are of special attention, including problems from the global climate change to the formation of a comfortable urban environment. In the paper, the authors consider green spaces of Birobidzhan as an important factor of the urban environment quality. They made the analysis of green spaces calculating the following six indicators of sustainable development: percentage of common green spaces, greenness index, green spaces availability,  green spaces area per 100 thousand inhabitants, percentage of protected natural areas, and percentage of urban spaces under the canopy of tree can. Most of the parameters have got high values. The greenness index significantly exceeds the urban planning standards. The town natural-recreational area  with preserved natural vegetation adds significantly to the estimated indicators value. The conducted research is a starting point in monitoring of changes in the estimated indicators.

The author reveals phenological parameters of the Great Tit in Birobidzhan (Jewish Autonomous region) and shows the dates for the first, mass, and early morning singing of males; the period of courtship and competition for females, laying eggs and incubation of full clutches; the appearance of chicks and fledglings, migrations, late broods and autumn singing. In the period from the end of December to the third decade of March, there occurs a distribution of birds over nesting territories and formation of pairs. The period of early morning singing of males, from the third decade of March to the third decade of June, is the height of the breeding season.

In the work, the author considers the condition of park spaces and their impact on the sustainable urban development. It is noted that there is a tendency to the reduction of park areas. The lack of specialized urban parks dramatically increases the multi-functionality of universal parks in relatively small land plots

The article examines the interaction of geourbanism and fashion industry in the context of creating a comfortable urban environment for buyers. The author substantiates the topic relevance and considers scientific grounds for its study.  Special attention is paid to the problems related to the urban environment comfort,  as well as to the importance of fashion and style. The article considers the possibilities for geourbanism and fashion industry interaction in creating an optimal urban environment.

The article deals with problem aspects in classification of small and medium-sized towns in the Russian Federation. The author views the main problem of the approaches applied to the typology of towns in the lack of uniform criteria for their classification and institutional legal framework support.Today, the towns are being studied by representatives of different industries, and there is an urgent necessity in an appropriate scientific discipline able to generalize the initial blocks of the resulted data. It is substantiated a necessity of legislative definition for the town notion concept, for further categorization of the localities into typological units, allocating small and medium-sized towns.

The work gives estimation of volatile aromatic hydrocarbons content in the water of small rivers in Khabarovsk in December 2021. The maximum concentrations of benzene, ethylbenzene, xylenes and pseudocumol were noted in the Kurcha-Murcha river water draining the refinery area.