ИСТИНА

Remoteness is a main "non-natural" condition of Arctic cities development. On the theoretical level it was investigated in three groups of concepts. First is the concept of remoteness developed both in the regional science (Husky, Berman, etc.) and social anthropology (Ardener, Humphrey etc.). Anthropological point of view significantly enriches the depth of understanding of the phenomenon of remoteness. The second field is just deeply developed concept of center and periphery (including modern aspects of actor-network analysis of peripherality and marginality as well as the analysis of networks of cities). The third theoretical pillow of our work is a long tradition of exploring remote territories of the Soviet and Russian authors (Slavin, Kosmachev, Pelyasov etc.). The empirical study of Arctic cities development in terms of remoteness shows us, that remoteness, in turn, promotes the discrete character of many processes in time and space. Discrete processes in time are represented first of all in the the changing annual volumes of inbound and outbound migrations, in long-term changes in the balance of their population, in the practice of seasonal work (resulting in turn increases the structure of the fixed assets af economic agents). Another direction of in-time fluctuation in the Arctic city development is the seasonal fluctuation of interest to the Arctic cities in media and Internet. The last group of parameters associated with discrete processes in time is the dynamics of the urban space and the the discreteness of city space itself. We can put forward three main directions of overcoming remoteness as the main and permanent desire for of Arctic cities development: 1) mobility (especially temporal mobility which provides temporal proximity), 2) flexible and multi-tools strategies and 3) creativity (or «mobility of mind»). The three areas should form the basis of strategies for sustainable development of Arctic cities.