CULTURAL LANDSCAPE IN NEW CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY
We have done the analysis of the main directions of the new cultural geography in the North American and British national scientific traditions. Russian humanitarian geography actively assimilates new approaches foreign cultural geography. Russian theories of the cultural landscape have strong semiotic and constructivist aspects. The deficits and the possibilities of the main areas of the new cultural geography are shown; their prospects in the context of modern Russian cultural geography are marked. In addition to achievements such as intersubjectivity, attention to the signs of the cultural landscape, the idea of its social constructiv character, iconographic and textual "reading", the new cultural geography has shown a number of problems. Most of them are important to scientific reflection in context of creating theories of the cultural landscape and the methods of its empirical study. Western new cultural geography, bringing together a wide range of approaches such as discourse - analysis, situationism, post structuralism, has great potential in the study of the cultural landscape.