FEATURES THE FREE ECONOMIC ZONES IN THE COURSE "ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY OF RUSSIA" IN HIGH SCHOOL
The authors of the study presented peculiarities of free economic zones in the course "Economic and social geography of Russia" at the university. The technique of studying the topic in a high school course. The study found that in the study of this topic is advisable to use a certain sequence and content of the presentation. The variety of existing definitions, objectives, assumptions, area classification requires their geographical expertise. It was revealed that the SEZ as a geographical category should, to a large extent, to integrate different features and criteria: territorial, economic, functional, typological. It was determined that the study of theoretical issues of creation and functioning of free economic zones is expedient to build a combination of territorial and functional approaches to the study of the theory within the concept of "function space". The authors concluded that the theory of "function space" allows a fruitful examination of the geographic diversity of approaches and aspects to the definition, objectives, assumptions and classifications SEZ. It captures a central place in this assay system of geographical method of analysis of this category and to determine the SEZ as a special territorial socio-economic system.