The key to reducing the growing internal gaps in the Russian space is the access of the Russian periphery to an innovative economy. For Russia, due to the gigantic size of its off-road peripheral spaces and the shortage of large city centers, this is a large-scale problem. The main theme of this book was the movement of the largest in the northern periphery of the country to the knowledge economy. The northern periphery is considered multidimensional: at the municipal, regional, zonal (Arctic) levels, as "islands" - areas of the North outside the year-round transport network, and as a rural area - places of traditional residence of the indigenous peoples of the North.