Territorial and sectoral changesin the industry of Republic of Belarus over a post-soviet period
The article is devoted to the description of territorial and sectoral changes in the industry of Republic of Belarus over a sovereign period. The author outlines the features of the development of the stage- evolutionary approach in the geography of industry. The article touches upon presents the main researches on this subject in the post-Soviet area. The relevance of this research is determined by the specific stage of the country's development. As a consequence, the author proposed four stages of industrial development in country over the sovereign period. These stages are linked with the phases of the Kondratiev wave. Analysis of changes in the territorial and sectoral structure of industry over a 25-years period was carried out in this article. The author came to the conclusion that during the sovereign period, the country's specialization in the international geographical division of labor changed, which led to changes in the territorial and sectoral structure of industry.