Email this article The Phenomenon of Company Towns: Specific Features of Their Genesis and Development
- Authors: Ulyanychev M.A.1
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Affiliations:
- Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
- Issue: Vol 7, No 2 (2020)
- Pages: 118-123
- Section: Russian and Foreign Practices of Social Regulation
- URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/2312-8313/article/view/317665
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2312-8313-2020-7-2-118-123
- ID: 317665
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Abstract
The article analyzes the social phenomenon of single-industry towns (company towns), their role in the modern market economy, their genesis in Russia and other countries. The author observes historical stages of development of single-industry towns in Russia, as well as the features of their occurrence in the Soviet Union in connection with city-forming enterprises, which in addition to economic activities performed social functions. The characteristics of the development of single-industry towns in Europe, North America and are being compared. Distinctive features of the industrial enterprises of the cities formed in the Soviet Union are allocated. The article analyzes the problems of functioning and development of single-industry towns, examines foreign and domestic strategies for the rehabilitation of single-industry municipalities, including current measures to support such towns in the Russian Federation.
About the authors
Maxim A. Ulyanychev
Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
Email: maksim.ulyanychev@mail.ru
PhD Student of the Department of Sociology Miklukho-Maklaya str., 6, Moscow, Russian Federation, 117198
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