Natalia Zubarevich

In September 2020, Zubarevich supported the Belarusian protests.

In 2010 she became the full member of the Association of Russian Geographers and Social Scientists and the member of the Expert Council of the Association.

Since 2003 Zubarevich has been combining teaching with the work of the director of the regional program of the Independent Institute of Social Policy. The Social Atlas of Russian Regions program helps researchers, investors, politicians, teachers and students. With its help, you can see the severity of existing problems in the regions, assess human capital and social infrastructure, get acquainted with modern trends in regional development.

In 1976 Zubarevich graduated from the MSU Faculty of Geography. Since 1977 she has been working at the Department of Economic And Social Geography of Russia, Geography Faculty of Moscow State University. She became the associate professor in 1998 and full professor in 2005. In 2003 she defended her doctoral dissertation on the topic "Social development of Russian regions in the transition period".

Professor Zubarevich is the author of the "theory of the four Russias", developed by her from the center-peripheral model of space development (center and periphery) that has existed in economic geography since the 1970s. Russia, in socio-economic terms, is internally heterogeneous, divided into relatively developed cities and a backward province.

Natalya Vasilyevna Zubarevich (Russian: Наталья Васильевна Зубаревич, born 7 June 1954, Moscow) is a Russian economist-geographer specializing on the socio-economic development of the regions. She has been the professor of the Department of Economic And Social Geography of Russia of the Moscow State University since 2005.