Many authors of scientific works do not give due attention to its literary appearance. While editing the manuscripts various defects are being come across from grammatical mistakes till heavy style and excessive use of alien or vernacular words and expressions. Some geographers tend to terminological word creation, littering the scientific language and giveng the scientese tone to works. The first-string geographers of the past paid attention to careful attitude to Russian language and need of exposition's simplicity and clearance. Each author has the capability to make the language of his work more expressive keeping the peculiarities of own style - using the wealth of Russian language (including the folk geographic terms), certain methods of fiction and huge experience of geographic classics.

On the basis of surveys taken in Saint-Petersburg in 2006-2007, a decision can be made that the transformation has led to distinct division of city space between people of different social status. This concerns not so much to residential spatial segregation as to spaces of activity that consist of personal dairy, weekly, annual etc movement routes and subjects of visit. We have committed and described differences in types of personal activity spaces between different social groups and similarity of such spaces inside these groups. We studied space-time parameters of consumer behaviour, work, social contacts and recreation of different social groups' representatives. All that led us to make a number of conclusions about factors that influence on the process of private activity spaces' social segregation and spatiotemporal component of different social groups' behaviour.

The article presents the distinguishing features of Kaluga Region which is considered as an object of land-use planning and town-planning design. The trends of forming the urbanized, natural-ecological and cultural-historic frameworks of the territory are substantiated. The functional-planning zoning is given. The zones of priority development and the poles of growth are marked out. The concrete measures for socioeconomic and ecological development of the territory are proposed.