ANALYSIS OF THE ECONOMIC POTENTIAL FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIAL MONOTOWNS (USING THE KIROV REGION AS AN EXAMPLE)

The peculiarity of the modern Russian economy is the turbulence of development and heterogeneity of the economic space. Regions differ in resources and development opportunities, implemented public policy and management efficiency. Instability is characteristic mainly of territories with a high concentration of industrial single-industry towns. Single-industry towns, due to historical features, have high risks of imbalance in social, economic, environmental and other components of municipal development. In order to develop management decisions to level this imbalance, it is necessary to monitor the potential for sustainable development of industrial single-industry towns. The article presents the author's methodological approach and analysis of the economic potential for sustainable development of industrial single-industry towns (using the Kirov region as an example). Unlike existing ones, the proposed methodological approach is based on the conceptual provisions of the theories of regional economics (theory of distribution of productive forces, theory of economic growth, theory of urban economics, concept of smart specialization, theory of innovation, etc.) and covers the following aspects: historical development; availability of resources; dependence on the external environment; territorial division of labor (economic specialization); presence of an administrative component...