Structure and evolution of landscapes in connection with strategic planning of development of rural areas (on the example of the Slavsk area in the Kaliningrad district)

The article describes the landscape planning possibilities for changing of rural zone functions on an example from a problem area in the district of Kaliningrad. During the field season of 2003 the group of landscape-ecological planning of Faculty of Geography and Geoecology, Kalinigrad State University, accomplished the first stage of research – the geomorphological and landscape mapping of the Slavsk area (scale 1:50,000), and the tourist map of the area was prepared (scale 1:100,000). On the basis of field research the functional-ecological map of the Slavsk area was drawn. On this basis four spatial zones were determined in the Slavsk area: • the protected natural territories and their buffer zones, • delta lowland of the river Neman limited by the waterway of the river Matrosovka, • lowland plain in the central part of the area with wooded aeolian sands, • upland moraine plain in the southern part of the area.