Logistics of Rural Areas: Historical Experience and Current Realities

Abstract

The aim of the study is to develop theoretical and practical recommendations for improving the management of rural areas based on the logistics concept. The article uses interdisciplinary and economic- statistical types of analysis, applied private methods of economic research. In the work, the rural area is considered as a logistics system with the main subsystems: natural resource environment; population; economy and institutional environment. Attention is focused on the balanced development of all subsystems of the rural territory as a guarantee of its sustainable development. The article analyzes the historical experience of managing one of the ethnic groups of Mountainous Dagestan – the Tindal free Society in the 18th and 19th centuries, which is relevant today in the conditions of a systemic crisis of the rural community caused by market transformations. As the analysis shows, the rural community has developed systematically precisely due to the use in practice of essentially logistical principles of managing all flow processes. The rural population rationally used natural resources, the forms of management corresponded to the level of development of productive forces, institutional norms regulated the functioning of the entire community. Sustainable development of rural areas in the future is possible only on the basis of a logistics concept – a systematic approach to managing all the flow processes of the territorial system of rural entities.