ABSTRACT
Cultural landscape becomes a social product, which embodies many representations of various local and global powers, as well as everyday practices and interpretations of more or less common users. The geographical tradition of landscape studies comes from the very core of the science, aiming and attempting to describe, understand, explore and examine the earth's surface, its visible and hidden components. In natural sciences, and especially physical geographies, landscape is often understood as a geographical structure: a territorial complex consisting of soils, vegetation, hydrology, climate, as well as human settlements and communication network. The bases of contemporary geographical studies of landscape had been laid by the German school of cultural geography. The Russian approach has emphasized landscape's bio-physical characteristics and its potential for utilization or transformation by humanity. Landscape is always socially constructed, whether by intent or default. Truth is placed in the eye of the observer; the true landscape is also primarily in the eye of the participant.
