MODERNIZATION OF RUSSIAN MONO-PRODUCTION TOWNS: STRATEGIC GOALS OF INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS

Abstract

Economic and social working arrangement in Russia is determined by spatial nonuniformity and underpopulation. The existing mono-towns are quite different and yet there isn’t single methodological foundation or practical way of development their territories. Taking in view their considerable mass and conglomeration of population in them, finding a source of Russian mono-towns modernization is becoming a major factor of macroeconomic dynamics.

Keywords

• cluster
• development model
• modernization
• mono-town
• monoprofile municipal unit
• spatial economics
• strategy