Abstract
The modern practice of defining administrative-industrial territories has formed the concept of «single-industry towns». Currently, there are many definitions of this phenomenon; however, the common criterion for classifying a town as a single-industry town is that its socio-economic development depends on the activities of one city-forming enterprise or several enterprises in the technological structure that operate within a single production and technological process. Such dependence for settlements with narrow specialization has a negative impact during the crisis situation at the enterprise or its liquidation. The negative consequences include a sharp increase in unemployment (including hidden one), aggravation of social problems, acceleration of population outflow to more developed cities/regions of the region/country, sharply reduced revenues to the local budget, which leads to the impossibility of independent development of the settlement. The problems of single-industry towns in the periods of economic crises are pronounced. Results. This paper has defined the criteria of single-industry towns, approaches to the identification of single-industry towns. In addition, the models and factors contributing to the sustainable socio-economic development of single-industry towns and domestic experience in the modernization of single-industry town settlements are identified.
Highlights
The problem of single-industry towns emerged at the end of the 20th century, but it was not until 2008-2009 that serious efforts were made to address it
The works of Lucas, Rex & Tepperman, Lorne, Taylor, A., Carson, D.B., & Carson, D.A., Boyle M. were considered as an example of foreign and domestic experience of modernization of monotown economies
Until 2003, mono-settlements were monitored by the Russian authorities, but there were no measures and large investment projects to diversify the economy of mono-settlements, and after 2003 monitoring ceased as well [1, 18]
Summary
The problem of single-industry towns emerged at the end of the 20th century, but it was not until 2008-2009 that serious efforts were made to address it. In those years, regional programmes to support and develop single-industry towns in order to diversify their economies began to be developed and implemented. Despite the common features of single-industry towns, it is impossible to propose general measures to solve the problems of sustainable socio-economic development. The Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, the «Fund for the Development of Monotowns», the State Corporation «Vnesheconombank» currently «VEB.RF» have been assigned responsibility for solving the problems of single-industry towns. The works of Lucas, Rex & Tepperman, Lorne, Taylor, A., Carson, D.B., & Carson, D.A., Boyle M. were considered as an example of foreign and domestic experience of modernization of monotown economies
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