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Abstract
A possible approach to predicting the future evolution of geography as a science and of geographical activity is suggested. The following elements are distinguished: changes in the subject, theory and method of the discipline; change in the structure of geography; changes in the system of geographical research institutions and other forms of geographical activity. No significant change in the study object of geography is expected, but geographers are likely to put more stress on resource-oriented studies and on the interdisciplinary study of the impact of human activity on the environment. The language of mathematics and automation is expected to play a growing role in geographic theory and method. Economic geography is assuming a more important role in Soviet geography. Changes in the structure of the geographical discipline will involve both differentiation and integration. Geographical research institutions will fall increasingly into two basic categories: (a) institutions concerned with regional design problems and regional data collection; (b) institutions that focus on broad geographical problems and on theory and method.