Sacred Geography of the North: Sacred Places in the Tundra as a Model of Sustainable Environmental Management

This article analyzes the sacred landscapes of the tundra not as an archaic religious phenomenon, but as a complexly organized, sustainable system of ethno-ecological planning. It classifies sacred objects according to their landscape-planning characteristics and functions, examines their role in maintaining ecological balance, and proposes principles for integrating this heritage into modern landscape architecture and territorial planning. The study is based on an interdisciplinary approach including comparative analysis, GIS mapping, semiotic analysis of landscape, and field research. The central thesis is that the network of sacred places can serve as an archetypal model for developing modern principles of landscape planning in the Arctic, where mythological prescriptions and taboos perform the role of mechanisms of adaptive resource management.