Abstract
At present, the issues of overcoming the negative structural shift in Russian economy, accelerating economic growth, reducing technological and social- and-economic gap between Russia and the developed countries are strategically important. Modern structure of Russian economy which had been developed as a part of market model does not generate the innovative type of development. In this situation, mining regions, the structure of which was formed in the early 20th century and is represented by the extractive industries, are undergoing the greatest problems of innovative development. Therefore, despite high urbanization and industrial development level the economy of Kuzbass (Western Siberia, Russia) is characterized by significant structural problems. They are associated with primary extractive nature of the regional industry, in which coal and iron ore, metallurgical and chemical industries dominate. They highly depend on Russian and global market of raw materials, widely use low-productive technologies, and they are characterized by high level of fixed capital depreciation and insufficient pace of innovative infrastructure development. The solution of the structural problems of economic development of mining region is connected with technological modernization of extractive industries and use of modern materials for the production of high-tech products.
Highlights
The structural problems of mining region are mainly connected with the "old industrial" origin of its economy, when from the beginning of the 20th century the mining and metallurgy industries had been extensively developing, and later - the power industry and connected with these branches machinery
Despite the fact that onethird of the equity capital of Western Siberia is centered in Kemerovo region, its average depreciation for regional economy is 43%, in industry - up to 55%, with an annual increase on 1-2%
The structural problems of Kemerovo region economy are typical for the industrial area and identical national ones
Summary
The structural problems of mining region are mainly connected with the "old industrial" origin of its economy, when from the beginning of the 20th century the mining (mostly coal) and metallurgy industries had been extensively developing, and later - the power industry and connected with these branches machinery. All these was accompanied by a high level of investment, output, gross income and tax revenue in two main industries of the regional economy - the coal and metallurgy ones
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