Diversity of Conditions and Company-towns Development Strategies

In the socio-economic and spatial development of any country, single-industry towns and conceptual approaches to the formation of models for their development and state support occupy a special place. These phenomena depend on a wide range of factors related both to the peculiarities of the allocation of natural resources and the resulting economic specialization of regions, the location of various strategically important production facilities for the country, and the legal norms adopted in the state that define its administrative and territorial structure and ensure territorial integrity. The purpose of the research. The article examines the identification of possible links between the conditions of functioning of single-industry towns, on the one hand, and options for their development strategies. Results. As a result of the conducted research, a theoretical typology of the situations in which domestic single-industry towns are located was developed and proposed. The role of large corporations, whose divisions are the city-forming enterprises of single-industry towns, in the development and implementation of strategies for their development in modern conditions is analyzed. The content of the problems of the development of single-industry towns, the solution of which does not require a change in legislation, is established and discussed. Special attention to the development of single-industry towns is also due to the fact that, being significantly dependent on the economic condition of the city-forming enterprise, single-industry towns often turn out to be centers of socio-political tension in the event of an unstable economic situation, a decrease in the competitiveness of the enterprise with subsequent reduction (closure) of production, restructuring of the company and the emergence of problems in local (regional) labor markets.