SOCIO-CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS

Cycle #2 5 (2.1) From 110 AD until 380 270 Around 228 years Around 910 years

6 (2.2) From 380 until 610 230

7 (2.3) From 610 until 870-s 260

8 (2.4) From 870-s until early XI century Around 150

Cycle #3 9 (3.1) From early XI century until late XIII century 260 Around 187 years Around 750 years

10 (3.2) From late XIII century until 1453 Around 170

11 (3.3) From 1453 until 1680-s 227

12 (3.4) From 1680-s until 1770-s Around 90

Cycle #4 13 (4.1) From 1770-s until 1856 86 Current cycle. As per three completed subperiods - 70 years Current cycle. As per three completed subperiods - around 210 years

14 (4.2) From 1856 until 1908 52

15 (4.3) From 1908 until 1980-s 72

16 (4.4) From 1980-s and for some future - is still going on currently -

Cycle #5 17 (5.1) 18 (5.2) 19 (5.3) 20 (5.4) Prognosis - - -

Described duration of the buffer zone evolution - around 2800 years

4. Socio-cultural methodology is completely applicable to the analysis of the Russian Empire - USSR - CIS (or Russian SCS, according to our terminology) space evolution. We suggest our own version of the socio-cultural zonation of the Russian SCS's space: by the late XX century, there are 20 (twenty) socio-cultural regions and 8 (eight) enclaves. Below is the periodization of the Russian SCS's socio-cultural regions (Russian enclaves' periodization is given in the Tatiana Nikolaenko papers; for definitions see Appendix 1).

SOCIO-CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF THE REGIONS

WITHIN RUSSIAN SCS: SUBPERIODS

I. Central Russian region

Number of cycles - 1

Number of subperiods - 10:

1. From ancient times up until VIII century AD

2. From VIII century until mid XI century

3. From mid XI until early XIII century

4. From early XIII century until 1380-s