✚ Why can we speak of a St. Petersburg school of "humanitarian regional studies"? ✚ What areas of European medieval studies, geography, philosophy, psychology, sociology, economics, and other sciences served as the context and source of the school's terminology? ✚ What are its methodological foundations and key texts? ✚ What was the fate of the school's scholars and institutions? ✚ What role did this early 20th-century school of scholarship play in the development of modern urban studies?

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