Authors : Aleksandr I. Lebedev, Iskander Yu. Usmanov, Lubov D. Matveeva and Natalia Z. Solodiliva
Abstract: The Southern Urals are surrounded by the great Eurasian steppe from the West, East and South. Mountain areas and adjacent plains are always areas where various economic, ethnic and in general, household structures are formed. Since, the time of the great migration of peoples and to the present time settlements which population is ethnically different as to basic kinds of activities, management of dwellings, industrial relations, etc. are formed in the Southern Urals. The 90% of the mountain areas of the South Urals is within the administrative borders of the Republic of Bashkortostan. The >5000 monuments of history and culture have been revealed in the Republic of Bashkortostan. At the same time, the problem of their protection and careful attitude to their usage have not been resolved enough. The study deals with the problems of allocation of settlements worthy of historic status among the rural settlements of the Republic of Bashkortostan, in accordance with rules of international, federal and regional legislation on cultural heritage sites.
Aleksandr I. Lebedev, Iskander Yu. Usmanov, Lubov D. Matveeva and Natalia Z. Solodiliva, 2015. The Historical Rural Settlements of the Southern Urals: Preservation with a View to Development. The Social Sciences, 10: 2136-2139.