Murman and Arctic setting in the 21-st century

The work is aimed at considering the prerequisites of social-economic conditions for possible future development of mining complex (MC) in the Murmansk region. This complex is a reference point, a mirror used to evaluate not only the past but also future problems of joint development of various technologies in the region, as it is the basis branch of industrial sector in the region nowadays and has appeared a long time ago. Materials are classified according to the analyzed directions: MC and external factors - macro-economy as well as shelf oil and gas, transport, energy, nuclear sphere within regional context. Not all prerequisites - fragments of the present situation have been evaluated, these are the most significant ones being potentially able to have a fundamental impact on the fate of MC. Forecast of time frames for realization of considered prerequisites is absent as a rule. The paper does not practically contain specific recommendations on development ways of MC. These and other aspects of the problem concerning the future of the mining industry on the Kola peninsula will be studied separately in case of need. Here it is important to comprehend correctly and quite completely the fundamental principle - the basis of coming changes existing de-facto today, which has been formed for the last years of the last century and millennium being so non-simple for Russia. (author)