Saint Petersburg: On the Issue of the Strategy for the Development of Municipalities in Conditions of Economic and Political Uncertainty

Abstract

Saint Petersburg is the second largest and most important city in Russia, which is in a seaside and border situation. Its peculiarity is that, unlike Sevastopol — also a city of federal subordination, it is a complex collection of municipalities of different status. The multilevel strategies of the federal, regional and local level are a logical phenomenon from the point of view of theory, but very problematic for practical implementation. Abandoning strategic planning in the face of uncertainty is a gross managerial error. Adjustment of the municipal structure of St. Petersburg is not a fundamental problem, since it belongs to the competence of the authorities of the subject of the federation.