Russia – Kazakhstan: Smart Sity Crossborder Development Cooperation

Рассматриваются возможности и потенциал развития концепции умного города трех городов Новосибирска, Омска и Павлодара, расположенных на приграничных территориях России и Казахстана. Анализ существующего состояния информационных технологий в этих городах, несмотря на их разные предпосылки, имеются значительные возможности более динамичного роста преимуществ технологий SmartSity на устойчивое развитие этих городских агломераций [1,2,3]. В итоге предлагается модель создания межрегионального кластера развития «умного города».The possibilities and potential for developing the concept of a smart city in three cities of Novosibirsk, Omsk and Pavlodar, located in the border areas of Russia and Kazakhstan, are considered. Analysis of the current state of information technologies in these cities, despite their different backgrounds, there are significant opportunities for a more dynamic growth of the advantages of Smart Sity technologies for the sustainable development of these urban agglomerations [1,2,3]. As a result, a model for creating an interregional cluster of the development of a “smart city” is proposed

THE ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF WATER ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN URBAN PLANNING IN NUR SULTAN, KAZAKHSTAN

With the positive and negative consequences of rapid global urbanization, the main task of the state is to ensure the long-term quality of life of its citizens. Currently, reforms undertaken by post-Soviet states aimed at environment-related projects are facing increasing resistance and protest from local populations. In 2020, the authors of this paper carried out a study on the Maly Taldykol lake group, located in the south-western planning region of Nur-Sultan. The purpose of this work was to conduct an assessment of ecosystem services to inform effective management decisions in urban planning. A strategy of combined research methods was applied. Because of the lack of data, the challenge was to explain, summarize, and verify the data obtained by one method through the application of another method. Analysis of the data showed that the annual costs associated with the creation of artificial “islands of nature” through the expansion of green areas is 20 times less than the losses associated with the development of the territory of Maloe Taldykol and the consequential loss of natural landscape. The results revealed that keeping these ecosystem services in their natural setting reduces the cost of providing these services in an alternative way, and avoids the negative impact of an ill-conceived decision. The uniqueness of this interdisciplinary study lies in the cost-benefit analysis of the findings of the assessment of ecosystem services, which result in the most effective management decisions in urban plannin

Left atrium structural and functional changes in arterial hypertension, and their dynamics during pharmacotherapy

This study was conducted to investigate principal structural and functional parameters of left atrium (LA), and to evaluate the effects of combined hypotensive therapy in AH patients. Fifty-eight patients with Stage I and II AH, receving low- and moderate-dose combined therapy, as well as 30 healthy individuals, were examined. All necessary clinical diagnostic procedures, 24-hour ambulatory BP monitoring, ECG, EchoCG were perfomed at the baseline, at 3 and 6 months. Increased reserve volume (RV), LA volume and sizes, LA systolic function, and decreased LA transitory volume (TO) were observed. After 6 months of treatment, BP level, LV myocardial mass (LVMM), LA RV, LA systolic function parameters decreased significantly (p < 0.05), and LA TV increased (p < 0.05), but the latter was still lower than in the control group. Long-term antihypertensive therapy facilitated normalization of LA stucture and function, as well as left venticualr hypertrophy (LFH) regression