EXPERIENCE OF TYPOLOGY OF MUNICIPALITIES IN EASTERN SIBERIA: COMBINING TERRITORIAL AND SECTORAL APPROACHES
K.V. Demidova
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Keywords: Eastern Siberia, typology, socio-economic development, investment projects, municipality, Far North, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Irkutsk Oblast, Republic of Khakasia
Abstract
The aim of the study is to create a typology of municipal formations in the regions of Eastern Siberia for the purpose of assessing the impact of large investment projects on their socio-economic development; to compare the resulting types with existing typologies of the regions studied at the micro level, as well as with E.E. Leizerovich’s microdistricts. The author’s methodology takes into account both the characteristics of the territory (level of development, transport accessibility) and the characteristics of large investment projects being implemented there (focus - new construction or development of existing facilities, specialization). The resulting typology showed that underdeveloped, difficult-to-access, and moderately accessible municipalities are characterized by raw material development - the development of new deposits or the expansion of production at existing deposits with a focus on exports. In developed areas, investments in fixed capital are more often directed towards the development of existing facilities, although most of them are also reoriented from the domestic market to exports. Examples of deepening raw material processing in underdeveloped areas, as well as the start of mineral extraction in accessible developed areas, are few and far between. Existing typologies often focus on factors of socio-economic development of territories and do not take into account the vector of their development, while the author’s typology is consistent with T.V. Litvinenko’s typology of resource use transformations, excluding options for the degradation of territorial and economic systems due to the author’s focus on new large-scale investment projects.
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