Education
- University: Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Higher School of Economics, Management and Law
- Degree: Bachelor’s in State and Municipal Administration
- Year: 2025
- School: Severodvinsk Gymnasium No. 14
Mark Kostarev
Manufactured in Northern Russia on August 20, 2003. Expiry date: to be determined.
About me
Skills
- GIS & spatial analysis
- Research & academic writing
- Web mapping & data visualization
- Fieldwork & landscape studies
- Urban & regional analysis
- Microsoft Office
- Photoshop
- Landscape recognition
Interests
- Urban development
- Urban geography & spatial inequalities
- Political geography
- Web
- Fieldwork
- Demography
- Cartography
- Environmental planning & green accessibility
Hobbies
- GeoGuessr
- Traveling
- Billiards
- Basketball
- Enduro
- Computer games
- Tennis
- Chess
- Rubik’s cube
- Carpentry
Art
- Play guitar and piano (trained at a music school)
- Acted in theater since early childhood (won multiple first-place awards at regional competitions)
- Enjoy drawing (though I’m really bad at it)
Languages
- Russian — native
- English — C1
- Spanish — A1
How I feel about what I do
Everything I do, placed by how good I am at it and how much I care about it.
Passionate, still learning
- Tennis
- Traveling
- Enduro
- Chess
- Demography
- Carpentry
- Data visualization
Passionate and proficient
- Landscape recognition
- Urban geography
- Research writing
- Fieldwork
- GIS & spatial analysis
- Political geography
- Web mapping
- GeoGuessr
- Urban analysis
- Environmental planning
- Photoshop
- Cartography
- Billiards
Neutral, still learning
Nothing here yet
Neutral but proficient
- Basketball
- Rubik’s cube
- Computer games
- MS Office
- Professional skills
- Interests
- Hobbies
Projects
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Residential Buildings by Decade in Severodvinsk
Interactive map of how the city’s housing grew, decade by decade, from the 1930s to today.
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Park Accessibility in the Arkhangelsk Agglomeration
Which homes in Arkhangelsk, Severodvinsk and Novodvinsk are more than a 500 m walk from a park.
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Global Informal Settlements
Patterns, risks and types of informal urbanization across regions and ten country profiles.
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Ambulance Accessibility in Arkhangelsk
Ambulance arrival times for every residential building and the area each station covers.
Research and more
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Bachelor’s thesis
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Informal housing and its impact on urban development: analysis of different countries
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Application of artificial intelligence and geoinformation analysis methods for assessing the accessibility of green spaces in an Arctic monotown (the case of Severodvinsk)
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The history of urban planning in Russia: a historical retrospective
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How prompt engineering teaches AI to “see” and understand geographical landscapes
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The influence of prompt instructions on the quality of transmission of polysemous English adjectives
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Formation of geographical literacy through gaming practices (using the example of the Scandinavian countries)
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Features of the implementation of urban planning policy in the city of Severodvinsk
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Russian Arctic
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Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT OSM)
