Case Study Of Kemerovo Region With High Concentreation Of Single-Industry Towns

Abstract

Single-industry towns in Russia in last decade have become one of the most urgent issue. The highest relevance of the development problem of the core industries is for the regions with the largest concentration of such settlements – Kemerovo region with 24 single industry towns (urban districts) and urban settlements. The article conducts the research of the sales revenues of the companies in Kemerovo region by single-industry towns listed in the official government order. The final sample includes 20 towns and settlements with core industry company representatives. The authors explore the dynamics of sales revenues in the core industries of each settlement and concentration indexes adopted for the single-industry towns research. The article offers the original method of Gini coefficient evaluation and implementation for core and non-core industry concentration assessment. Using the U-shaped pattern dependence between the diversification strategy and the economic growth, the authors identify the single-industry towns for which the specialization strategy does not contradict to the level of economic growth due to higher per capita income and dynamics of the sales revenues, including Mezhdurechensk, Leninsk-Kuznetsky, Novokuznetsk, and Yashkino. The other single-industry towns are worth to focus on the diversification strategy. The result supports to differentiate the single-industry towns by possible diversification stages and to offer the further development.