COMPANY TOWNS OF THE SIBERIA AND RUSSIAN FAR EAST: POTENTIAL AND DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS

Maxim Fomin; Vadim Bezverbny; Irina Shushpanova; Nikolay Mikryukov; Elena Lukashenko; Timur Miriazov

doi:10.17323/1999-5431-2020-0-1-137-165

Maxim Fomin PhD (in Policy), Senior Researcher of the Department of Geourbanistics and Spatial Development, Institute for Socio-Political Studies of Russian Academy of Sciences, 6/1 Fotievoi Str., 119333 Moscow, Russian Federation.
Vadim Bezverbny PhD (in Economics), Lead Researcher of the Department of Geourbanistics and Spatial Development, Institute for Socio-Political Studies of Russian Academy of Sciences, 6/1 Fotievoi Str., 119333 Moscow, Russian Federation.
Irina Shushpanova PhD (in Sociology), Lead Researcher of the Center for Strategic Social and Socio-Political Research, Institute for Socio-Political Studies of Russian Academy of Sciences, 6/1 Fotievoi Str., 119333 Moscow, Russian Federation.
Nikolay Mikryukov PhD (in Geography), Research Fellow of the Department of Geourbanistics and Spatial Development, Institute for Socio-Political Studies of Russian Academy of Sciences, 6/1 Fotievoi Str., 119333 Moscow, Russian Federation.
Elena Lukashenko PhD (in Policy Studies), Research fellow, Department of Geourbanistics and Spatial Development, Institute for Socio-Political Studies of Russian Academy of Sciences, 6/1 Fotievoi Str., 119333 Moscow, Russian Federation
Timur Miriazov Junior research, Institute for Demographic Research – Branch of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IDR FCTAS RAS) , 6/1 Fotievoi Str., 119333 Moscow, Russian Federation.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17323/1999-5431-2020-0-1-137-165

Keywords: employment, company town, settlement system, city-forming enterprise, evolution of functions, municipal and regional development, Siberia and the Far East

Abstract

In the article, the authors analyze the current state of the company towns of the Siberian & Far Eastern Federal Districts. The study explores the company settlements of the studied federal districts. The research is focused on the features of the development of company towns in the Siberia & Russian Far East. The main goal of the study is to identify peculiarities of the development of company towns in the Siberia & Russian Far East, their potential and prospects. To achieve this goal, the authors solve a number of research tasks: 1) analyze the theoretical and methodological foundations of the study of company towns; 2) build a typology of company towns of the Siberia & Russian Far East as a key tool characterizing their level of development; 3) analyze the potential and prospects of enterprises of company towns of the studied districts; 4) develop authors’ proposals on measures of state support for company towns of the Siberia & Russian Far East. The study is based on the analysis of the literature and sources, statistical material, RF normative and legislative acts, non-participant observation conducted by the authors in 2019. For a more visual and systematic presentation of the results of the study, the authors use a data original visualization method such as mapping. The study shows that among the company towns of the Siberia & Russian Far East, settlements with the existing risks of a socio-economic situation prevail. It is concluded that measures aimed at improving the efficiency and competitiveness of city-forming enterprises, as well as the creation of company towns investment funds, which will direct part of the income of large businesses to the development towns, can contribute to improving the situation in company settlements and preventing crisis phenomena in them. According to the authors, with systemic state support, old resource specializations of company towns can develop in the branches of a new technoparadigm.

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