Development of single-industry towns as a factor of economic and regional growth

¹ Alsel Joint Stock Company, St. Petersburg, Gakkelevskaya street, 21, 197227 St. Petersburg, Russia
² St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Letchika Pilyutova Street, 1, 198206 St. Petersburg, Russia

^* Corresponding author: genadij.rubtzov@yandex.ru

Abstract

Single-industry towns occupy a special place in the system of regional economic development of Russia. To date, domestic practice has accumulated significant experience in the management of mono-profile areas. In fact, its own model of mono-education management, which includes an individual set of tools for socio-economic impact, has been developed. The institute of development of single-industry towns was formed into a complete system of tested mechanisms and organizational forms of their implementation. The basic directions of support of monoprofile territories are defined, the bodies of development of single-industry towns are created, the complex programs of development of monoformations are tested and adjusted. The process of development of mono-territories has passed to the “post-institutional” stage, when the system of institutions for single-industry towns management (Single-Industry Towns Development Fund), tested in practice, has been subjected to scientific and public criticism, and to date is able to effectively generate a qualitatively different level of influence on the socio-economic situation of cities of the mono-profile type.