1. Alexander Pelyasov Doctor in Economic Geography (1996) Professor in Political Economy (1998) Director of the Center for Northern and Arctic economies under Council for the Study of Productive Forces - SOPS (2005) Chairman of the Russian section of the European Regional Science Association (2002)

2. Three year partner project with Institute of Social and Economic Research, UAA, Alaska (1995-1997) Russian co-director (American – Vic Fischer) First year – Northern economies Second year – federalisn in the North Third year – Native issues in the North Project sponsored by Eurasia Foundation, USAID

3. AHDR – four models of the Arctic economy: population, employment, GRP, per capita GRP

4. Creativity index for the Northern and Southern Europe: North is more succesful in innovative activity (methodology by R.Florida, 2004)

5. One more year of intellectual ascent of European regional science: review of the ERSA 2006 Volos Congress reports Alexander Pelyasov

6. Comparison of topical structure of Volos and Amsterdam Congress papers Volos: topicVolos: Number of papers Amsterdam: topicAmsterdam: Number of papers Total reviewed291 (63%)250 (51,4%) 1. Cities, urban issues44 (15,1%) ↑1. Cities, urban issues29 (11,6%) 2. Regional innovation system 26 (8,9%) ↓2. Regional innovation system25 (10%) 3. Regional labor markets20 (6,9%) ≈5. Regional labor markets16 (6,4%) 4. Regional growth18 (6,2%) ↓4. Regional growth18 (7,2 %) 5. Regional policy, planning, governance 16 (5,5 %) ↑11. Regional policy, planning, governance 11 (4,4%) 6. Rural issues16 (5,5 %) ↑17. Rural households, firms, policy5 (2% ) 7. Migration14 (4,8 %) ↑19. Regional dimension of migration4 (1,6%) 8. EU regional policies, enlargement, convergence 13 (4,5%) ↓8. EU regional policies, enlargement, convergence 15 (6 % ) 9. Firms location, organization and competitiveness 12 (4,1 % ) ≈10. Firms location, organization and competitiveness 12 (4,8 %) 10. Island economy12 (4,1 %) ↑18. Island economy5 (2 %)

7. Books Northern economy and the radical reform (1996) Russian North and federalism (1998) Native and the state: from paternalism to partnership (1999) Population of the Kolyma-Magadan Region (1990) And the last will be the first: northern periphery on the route for knowledge economy (2009)