Spatial Shrinking in the Russian Northeast

The article considers the characteristics of spatial development processes in the northeast of Russia together with issues of the preservation of native languages in this region, in order to investigate the research hypothesis that processes of spatial change are followed by multidirectional processes in native language use. The article describes spatial shrinking and processes of polarization and regionalization via examination of statistical data and satellite images. This allows the authors to compare—for the first time—the processes of spatial changes and native language usage by Luoravetlan in Chukotka.