Geoinformation Support of Tourist and Recreation Development of Cultural Landscape of the Republic of Mordovia (Russia)

Study is aimed at solving the problem of developing a strategy for the formation and arrangement of cultural landscapes in the Republic of Mordovia on the basis of geoinformation support for the tourist and recreational development of the cultural landscape. The study of the formation of cultural landscapes of the region was carried out through the use of databases of spatio-temporal organization of geosystems and cartographic modeling of the patterns of economic development of geosystems. The regional GIS "Mordovia" and geoportal "Natural and Historical Heritage of the Republic of Mordovia" developed by the authors contain an interactive system of thematic maps and databases that reveal the peculiarities of nature, population, economy, cultural heritage, and the development of environmental situations of the region. The article shows that the cultural landscapes of Mordovia were formed in the process of centuries-old economic development of geosystems, and include high landscape diversity, cultural objects of peoples with unique development paths as the most important components.