| Natalia Vasilyevna Zubarevich | |
| Native Name: | Наталья Васильевна Зубаревич |
| Native Name Lang: | Russian |
| Birth Date: | 7 June 1954 |
| Birth Place: | Vladimir Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR |
| Citizenship: | Soviet Union → Russia |
| Nationality: | Russian |
| Field: | Economic geography, political geography, social geography |
| Workplaces: | Moscow State University |
| Alma Mater: | MSU Faculty of Geography |
| Prizes: | International Leontief Medal,[1] Yegor Gaidar Award, Nikolay Baransky Award |
Natalya Vasilyevna Zubarevich (Russian: Наталья Васильевна Зубаревич, born 7 June 1954) 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.
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".
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 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.
Zubarevich constantly participates as a leader and responsible executor in the programs of the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, as well as in international projects and programs, including projects of the United Nations Development Programme (Annual Reports on Human Development in the Russian Federation), the Moscow Bureau of the International Labor Organization ("Poverty Reduction Strategy in Russia"), TACIS Programs ("Reforming the social protection system in the Russian Federation" and "Monitoring regional reforms in the Russian Federation"), the World Bank Social Projects Fund ("Development of a methodology for forming a model for the development of social infrastructure in the region"), etc.
Zubarevich also lectures at universities and public bodies of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, the Netherlands, and Germany at the invitation of international organizations.
In September 2020, Zubarevich supported the Belarusian protests.[2]
Professor Zubarevich is the author of the "theory of the four Russias",[3] 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.