Ranking as Method of Evaluating Old-Industrial Regions in Russia

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Ranking is an acute method used in comparative estimation of regions in the system of state governance. The goal of ranking is to build typology and to carry out comparative analysis of old-industrial regions in order to assess the potential of their transformation into centers of economic growth in the Russian Federation. The article provides the review of authoritative Russian rankings of such regions that demonstrate topicality of using integral figures in the process of estimation. The author put forward methodology of old-industrial region ranking by dynamics of integral indicator in development and characterized its key stages and their content. The system of indicators was advanced to assess the potential of old-industrial region transformation into centers of national economy growth in Russia. This ranking methodology used regularly in the form of monitoring can give an opportunity to form the database concerning old-industrial regions and in proper time identify challenges and problems acute for a concrete region. On the basis of results of old-industrial region ranking we can draw a conclusion that regions of the first three groups of the ranking can be considered as potential centers of national economy growth as they possess the necessary potential of self-development, possibilities to participate in processes of regional interaction and stable institutions of development.