The article highlights the challenges facing the process of creation and development of the North Caucasian Federal District tourist cluster. It provides the results of an analytical research into the development of the tourist industry in the Russian Federation, identifies the constraints to tourist cluster development, the major problems and plausible solutions that may pave the way towards the targeted results. The authors lay out a scheme for tourist cluster creation and define priority directions of training personnel for the tourist and service sector.

The textbook is a systematic exposition of the political processes in the countries of the Caucasus region (Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey and Iran) from 1991 to 2011 In terms of methodology all heads constructed on a single sample (each Chapter in seven sections with the same names). This is done so that the reader (student, graduate student, researcher) could compare similar processes in the economic, political and cultural life of different countries in the same historical period and independently conduct a comparative analysis of the processes taking place there. Meets the requirements of the Federal state educational standard of higher education of the last generation. For students studying the discipline "political Science". "International relations", "Regionalism", "Economy", "National history", "Conflictology", "Elitology", as well as for a wide range of readers interested in contemporary political history.

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The article is devoted to the problem of studying the features of the integration processes of the North Caucasus region into the Russian civilizational space. This problem is reflected in the scientific heritage of the famous Russian scientist-historian, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Alexandrovich Polyakov. In the research of Yu. A. Polyakov, the essence of the concept of “civilization” is revealed, the specifics of the actual and controversial characteristics of civilization are analyzed, its criteria are determined in the context of the civilizational status of the North Caucasus. The fundamental provisions formulated by Yu. A. Polyakov on the general historical significance of the North Caucasus are particularly significant from a methodological point of view.