Approaches to fractal modeling of development processes of the South Russian frontier zone: new version of the model

We propose new approaches to the fractal modeling of development processes of the South Russian frontier zone. We propose to consider these processes in more partitive periods of time and at the level of individual settlements development that arose on the frontier territory. We introduce materials of statistical and reference publications of the first half of the 19th century. Study of new materials allowed to generate new model indicators: the ratio of agriculture and farming in individual counties; the compliance degree of grain prices in towns of frontier zones to the metropolis prices. In the result we refine the previously formulated provision stating that by the mid 19th century all counties of South-Central Russia became part of the Old-Moscow metropolis. We specify that on 1820 and 1840 time segments isolated counties remained not fully developed in economic and social terms. We outline the first approaches to modeling the development processes of the frontier zone at the settlement level on such criteria as the period of foundation, social composition of the first settlers, places of settlement. Changes in the social composition of the individual settlements population during the frontier development.

Russian state, frontier, metropolis, counties, settlements, modeling, fractals, historical informatics