Stepanova P.P.research officer, Small business research sector, Institute of the regional economics of the North ;
The article focuses on the problems of self-actualization of the Republic Sakha (Yakutia) native population. Complicated social, economical, political changes assign primary importance to the system of interrelations of men and Northern nature. When a nation faces critical situations it stirs up its moral and spiritual system of values, which is acquired from life experience. Nations always acts accordingly to their spiritually formalized moral and esthetic ideas when choose its line of policy. It is important to mark out the Arctic, the North regions as a zone of special development regime on the international level, and favor its sustainable development in every possible ways. Sustainable development in the Arctic means keeping ethnic and ecological safety of the Northern civilization. Behavior standards of every Northern person, community, ethnos were formed on the basement of their historical experiences and were determined by the harmonization of Northern nature management with environment lows. There exists the only way to keep ‘wild nature’ of the Arctic and ecosystems in the traditional nature management areas safe, which means balanced natural resources usage, limited anthropological loading in accordance with the Northern ecosystems ecological capacity. This way is urgent for Russian Federation and especially for the Republic Sakha (Yakutia), the territory with unstable economy. Natural resources potential effective usage is one of the preconditions of the sustainable development of its territories in the global economy.
Keywords: Arctic regions, the North, Yakutia, social self-organizing, self-management, division into districts
