Due to the possible inclusion of Kalevalsky National Municipal District, Segezhsky Municipal District and Kostomukshsky Urban Okrug of Republic of Karelia into the Arctic Zone of Russian Federation (AZRF), three monotowns may be added into AZRF: Segezha, Nadvoitsy and Kostomuksha. Obviously, these monotowns are entitled to receive additional benefits, preferences from the state. But what about the basic elements of a single-industry town, i.e. its town-forming enterprises? In order to answer this question, the authors investigate a population dynamics in monotowns of Republic of Karelia and analyze the economic stability of urban enterprises and their share in formation of population incomes. The research has been done towards the monotowns of the categories I, and II, as there are no monotowns of category III in Republic of Karelia. The article draws conclusions about the economic sustainability of Karelia’s urban enterprises for the period 2012-2018.

An exhibition of photographs from the collection of Dmitry Nikolayevich Anuchin, organized jointly with the Earth Science Museum of Lomonosov Moscow State University, has opened in the Maritime Exhibition Center of the Museum of the World Ocean in Svetlogorsk, Kaliningrad region. Dmitry Nikolayevich Anuchin (1843-1923) was a famous Russian anthropologist, ethnographer, archaeologist, geographer, and museologist. D.N. Anuchin was active in spreading geographical knowledge and creating a Russian university geography school, and educated a great number of students. Dmitry Nikolayevich was at the origin of the creation of the Geographical Museum of Moscow University, which he headed for more than 20 years. The exhibition shows about 70 prints of photographs of the Russian North of the late 19th-early 20th centuries from D.N. Anuchin’s photo collection. A significant part of the collection (more than 3.5 thousand units) is now stored in the funds of the Earth Science Museum of the Lomonosov Moscow State University.