Humanities & Social Sciences 10 (2016 9) 2351-2364 ~ ~ ~ УДК 911.3 Geographical and Legal Problems of Delimitation of the Arctic Territories in the Krasnoyarsk Territory (Krai) Leonid A. Bezrukov* V.B. Sochava Institute of Geography SB RAS, 1 Ulan-Batorskaya, Irkutsk, 664033, Russia, Received 09.06.2016, received in revised form 12.08.2016, accepted 30.08.2016 The present study deals with the geographical and legal problems of delimitation of the North and Arctic territories in the Krasnoyarsk Territory (Krai). <...> With respect to the legislative delimitation of the North as a separate entity, it provides characteristics the three main latitude zones of the Krasnoyarsk Territory (Krai): the South (the Southern Latitude Belt), the Near North, and the Far (Extreme) North, along with the respective principles of territorial policy. <...> The emphasis is placed on the insufficient substantiation of the “Arctic zone” delimitation on land, especially on the existing contradictions between its boundaries and the boundaries of the Extreme North zone. <...> The article also explores the problem of political and legal regulation as regards the demarcation of the water area of the Arctic Ocean, which arose after the entry of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) into force, as its principal provisions were fundamentally different from the historically established division of the Arctic into five polar sectors belonging to Russia, Canada, the USA, Denmark and Norway. <...> Some issues related to the influence of the differences in the Arctic maritime spaces’ legal status on the peculiarities of the development of their natural resources are also covered. <...> This paper was prepared with the financial support from the Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation (RHSF) and the Krasnoyarsk Territory (Krai) Science Foundation (project no. 16-12-24007 “Development of long-term scenarios and organizational-economic mechanisms of development of the Arctic zone of the Krasnoyarsk Territory (Krai), and assessment of their influence on the socioeconomic state and dynamics of the Krasnoyarsk Territory (Krai)”). <...> Introduction Everyone knows the symbolic prophesy of a great Russian encyclopaedist and scientist M.V. Lomonosov, that the power of Russia would grow with Siberia and the Arctic Ocean. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: bezrukov@irigs.irk.ru – 2351 – is the time for the North Arctic Ocean and the Arctic as a whole to follow. <...> Geographical and Legal Problems of Delimitation of the Arctic Territories in the Krasnoyarsk… the place where an enormous amount of natural resources is concentrated; the deposits have been developed <...>