Prospects for development of mining monoprofile municipal entities of the Russian Federation

The article is devoted to the development of measures for complex support of monoprofile municipal entities. These measures have aimes to improve their socio-economic situation. The topicality of the study is that in many mining monoprofile municipal entities (MME) there are socio-economic problems the solution of which affects the life quality of their 1.26 million residents and the performance of 41 out of 58 mines of the country. The authors used decomposition of city-forming enterprises of MME of the Russian Federation and depending on the type of their economic activity worked out special measures on developing mining MME grouped according to three directions. The article presents the results of analysis of the socio-economic situation in mining MME of the Russian Federation. The analysis was conducted on the basis of the data about the quality indicators of the town environment, the number of residents, average unemployment rate, average number of employees of city-forming enterprises and the number of employees to be dismissed. The authors present the results of financial analysis of the city-forming enterprises involved in underground coal mining. The results of the analysis provided the opportunity to give recommendations on the possible directions for development of mining MME and suggest the measures for improving their socio-economic situation. The measures take into account social, natural-geographical and financial-economic aspects of development of such municipal entities.

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