Problem analysis and risk evaluation of urban areas has several related aspects. Together with the relative novelty of the scientific field management of development areas, tasks of risk management in terms of urbanization have not yet received sufficient research and methodological support.

The purpose of the study is in the development and testing of an effective mechanism of analysis and evaluation of environmental and economic risks that arise in the process of realization projects of development in urban areas.

Objects of the study are ecological and economic risks specific to projects of development in urban areas and arising from the process of transformation of the natural-anthropogenic environment.

The hypothesis of the study is in adaptation principles of the method of analysis of hierarchies and application of consistent formal expert assessment of ecological and economic risks to the problems of analysis projects of development in urban areas, as a result of which it is proposed to carry out the selection of the most rational directions for practical implementation in conditions a particular urban environment.

The result of research is the author’s approach to the adaptation of the well-known and positively proven in solving multi-criteria tasks method of analysis of hierarchies to identify and assessment the risk level development of urban areas based on multi-variation risk events and different probability of their existence.

The saturation of economic area trough the increasing number of interconnections, the globalization of the economy make the most popular methods of modeling techniques organizational systems with matrix structure. Scientometric research has shown that since the beginning of 90-ies the number of publications included in bibliographic database Scopus on the subject of the application of these methods increased by almost 20 times. A substantial part (28 %) of these publications contains to the joint use, at least, two alternative methods. The paper considers the advantages and limitations of modeling techniques organizational systems with matrix structure. The main limitation of these methods identified a small number of kinds original sources of information involved in the modeling of complex systems. The proposed extension of the information base simulation matrix organizational structures (industrial companies managed their businesses, etc.) to implement trough additional attraction of corporate media. Research has shown that extraction of the required information from publications contained in corporate periodicals, the method of content analysis enables to obtain sufficient data to verify adequacy of the structure of the systems that were identified by other methodological approaches, for example, the procedures of collective expertise. At the same time, more detailed information about the structural features of the simulated systems, it is advisable to draw by results of processing the primary published information technology Text Mining.

The problems of innovative development of industrial production and processing of mineral resources of the Russian Arctic, which account for over 37 % of added value. It is shown that the growth of industrial production of the Arctic macro-region is mainly due to extensive factors – increase rather than the use of innovative technologies. It is noted that the innovative development of the Arctic regions lags behind similar indicators of the Russian Federation and significantly inferior to developed countries. In meeting the challenges of sustainable development is a dynamic macro-economy has the primary role belongs to innovative industrial activity, capable of providing a continuous update of technological base of production, development and production of new competitive products, efficient penetration of world markets for goods and services. The strategic direction of development is the intensification of industrial production, especially in times of crisis and economic sanctions against the Russian Federation western countries. It is recognized that the development and implementation of innovative projects and import substitution technologies and equipment in enterprises of mineral resources of Russia is seriously late, did not have to wait for faster results. To implement the policy of import substitution is necessary to develop efficient ways to solve the problem in the first place increasing innovation activity of enterprises. Implementation of these measures is the important factor of innovative development of enterprises for extraction and processing of mineral resources, and ensuring the economic security of the country.

The paper describes the author’s methodology and information system for the investment climate and unsystematic investment risk analysis of national economies, territories, industries and enterprises. It proposed an analytical tool, which includes three interrelated elements: a matrix, the algorithm and the program, which is designed for the analysis of groups of factors and individual factors in each of the groups in their impact on the investment climate and as a result to develop diversification measures to reduce risks and increase the attractiveness of the investment, and at all levels of the economic hierarchy. Development, description and formalization of decision support system based on the original algorithm and the method for investment climate factors and investment risk analysis and the discount rate determination. The study directs at 

– consideration of methods for making investment decisions and determining investment risks on different economic levels, based on industry characteristics,
– description of a new approach to the diagnosis of the investment climate with the authors’ «AVS-matrix»,
– development of an advanced algorithm and a step by step method of investment risk (risk premium) determining in the system of «quotient-risk»,
– description of a computer program realizing the author’s technique and decision support system, the formalization of subjective perception of objective quantitative risk assessments: Methodological basis of the studies are traditional methods of scientific analysis, economic and mathematical statistics, technical, economic and logical analysis, graphic and economic and mathematical modeling, etc. The advanced algorithm, step by step methodology and decision support system for investment climate and unsystematic investment risk assessment were described and formalized in the paper. Author’s certificate of software product state registration No. 2015663672 «The program for assess investment climate and unsystematic investment risk assessment» was obtained. The use of author’s technique will significantly reduce the role of the subjective factor in expert estimates and uncertainty factors, will improve the validity and reliability of the investment climate and investment risks assessments, and will help to make an adequate decision about risks elimination.

The development of electric power industry in Russia today is undergoing a lot of changes, unions, and the transition from public to private management. In modern time’s human activity, the functioning of industrial enterprises cannot be imagined without the use of electrical energy, in this context, the issues of sustainability, reliability and continuity of the functioning of the electric power to the fore. The publication examines the electric power on the background of world events and current trends in the industry. The article analyzes the problem of efficient and reliable operation of the fuel and energy complex, which are associated with the last reform of the power industry, Russian accession to the Eurasian Economic Union, new technologies and methods of production of electrical energy. The author concludes that the reform of the sector has not led to the expected rate of development, and they have fallen significantly in some areas; creation of the Eurasian electricity market countries with potentially weak economies will not lead to an increase in energy efficiency and reliability of the industry, but on the contrary, perhaps, the Russian Federation will have to maintain the stability of power systems of other countries. At the end of the publication presents the current trends in the development of the electric power Russia, which it is advisable to be based on balanced and informed decisions, while building on existing historical experience to enhance the functioning of electric power.

Effective management of production organization in terms of systemic approach can be defined as the result of the balance of its economic activities. Thus, to get the desired result of production activities, providing effective management, you can, if you have a managerial influence on the internal environment factors, but the result of the functioning of the organization is influenced by factors in the external environment to which industrial organizations relationships with customers, suppliers and competitors. For the disclosure of the content management process should be considered in three aspects: organizational, methodological, technological and content. The substantial aspect of process control involves consideration of 5 components of the management process, among which the most important for understanding its essence as methodological, informational, functional, economic and social aspects. The methodological component will focus on identifying the priorities for process and system control, information – caused by the dependence of any management activities from information exchange between participants of process of functioning of organizations functional – due to the need of implementation in a certain sequence of interrelated management functions, economic – due to the need of rational use of various resources and application of resource conservation, social performs a fundamental role in ensuring the competitiveness of the organization performs its work team. The basis for such functional models represent the functions of information exchange, decision-making, planning, organizing and coordinating the work of the staff, the function of motivation, control and accounting.

The article deals with the results of an analysis of data on state of the tourist and recreational sector in the Kemerovo region. The evaluation of the impact of its development on improving the quality of human capital is fulfilled. The authors analyze the possibilities of the region authorities and large industrial enterprises of the region to create conditions for improving the quality of human capital through the development of tourist infrastructure and the potential for domestic tourism. With the help of sociological and statistical methods the authors assess employee satisfaction by recreation opportunities in the region, and present the results of the study. According to the analysis of the tourist and recreational sector results and the sample survey of large companies’ employees, authors conclude direct impact of tourism and recreation on the quality of human capital. The authors reveal the problems hindering sustainable growth of tourism and recreational sector and the influx of tourists and propose the ways of their solution. The survey results may be useful for the executive authorities in working out the strategies, targeted programs, development plans, etc.

In article the main tendencies of development of the industry in Russia, in aspect of the developed modern conditions of influence of sanctions are considered, the main problems of technological equipment and prospect of development of industrial productions are revealed. Positive and negative influence of sanctions on separate industries of the Russian Federation is analysed. It is revealed that the imposed economic sanctions in general negatively influence a condition of industries that caused need of carrying out comprehensive investigation and carrying out the analysis and an assessment of the condition of industries allowing to reveal the perspective directions of development and to improvement of dynamics of development. The cluster analysis of primary branches of the industry for 2014 which purpose is definition of groups of the regions having similar tendencies of development, a problem and the main points of growth is carried out. The cluster analysis is carried out on primary activities: mining, the processing productions, production and distribution of the electric power, gas and water. The clusters including regions with high degree of wear of fixed assets practically in all branches are as a result revealed, the groups of regions entering the cluster which is characterized by rather high technological equipment are separately presented. Clusters with high profitability, and a large number occupied in this branch are defined. The cluster analysis allowed to reveal priority activities of various industries of regions of the Russian Federation, to define strong and weaknesses of concrete regions.

The basic important both ecological and economical events in the world in 2016 are considered in a review – the entry into force of Agenda for sustainable development, the signing of the Paris climate agreement. In the review the global trend towards sustainable development is noted, the ways of solving environmental problems in the Russian Federation, China, USA, Europe were considered. The review considered in detail the transition to the new system of standardization in the field of environmental protection in the Russian Federation in connection with the entry into force in 2016 of the Federal Law № 219-FZ, aimed at the establishment of standards and plans for reducing pollution to levels consistent with the best available techniques (BAT) . Information and technical guides on best available techniques (taken or planned to take) for 28 different sectors of the Russian economy were considered that have a significant negative impact on the environment, as well as the procedure for classification technologies to BAT and recommendations for assessing the economic efficiency of the technology. The relevance of ranking of the BAT with an increase in economic efficiency was noted. Incentives and sanctions in the implementation of BAT provided by legislation were listed. Particular attention was paid to the metallurgical production. The review provides the stages of implementation of best available techniques in the Russian Federation. The use of the best available techniques (BAT) at the same time allows us to solve two problems: increase of technological efficiency and environmental safety at industrial sites.

In this paper, we develop an algorithm and criteria for evaluating the efficiency of industrial enterprises of foreign trade operations, depending on the geography of the exporting activity: work with the countries belonging to the Eurasian Economic Union or third countries. The relevance of the study due to the need to evaluate the potential of Russian enterprises in the competitive international market that realized the need to develop an algorithm analysis of foreign trade activities of the enterprise and methods of its implementation. Implementation of this objective will stimulate economic efficiency of industrial enterprises of the Russian Federation, through the development of export-import operations between the Eurasian Economic Union member states in terms of economic sanctions. The scientific novelty of this research is to develop an algorithm for analysis of foreign trade activities of industrial enterprises, taking into account the potential of geographic preferences, available in the trade with the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union integration association. In particular, it highlighted the criteria for assessing the degree of influence of factors on the effectiveness of foreign trade with the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union and third countries. Meaning developed under Article algorithm evaluation of the effectiveness of management decisionmaking is the ability to identify options for cooperation with foreign counterparts, depending on the commodity groups, regional characteristics, the presence of privileges and preferences, supply conditions, as well as external factors. Thus, the optimized management model export sales of industrial enterprises and the maximum cost-effectiveness.

The article considers one of the problems devoted to postgraduates’ professional training specifically related to acquiring profound foreign languages knowledge demanded in a modern business, and raising Russian university graduates’ competitiveness in the international labour market. Moreover, the article includes a list of relevant competences determined for postgraduates in the process of working on and uphold  PhD thesis. The authors, firstly, systemized foreign language professionally oriented competences for postgraduates including ones intended for the real economy and, secondly, determined the factors helped along their achievements. Virtue samples of using foreign data bases in the postgraduates’ training are provided as well as some guidance on improving the teaching methods in foreign languages on the final stage of Russian educational system.

Current problem of managing intellectual potential construction companies is in recent years, in view of many scientists and economists. However, the legislation in the field of construction put forward new requirements for managerial employees. This study aims to justify the role and place of human resource capacity as a key factor for sustainable development of the construction company, identifying features of construction that affect personnel management process, production. The working hypothesis of the study is based on a position: staff capacity is a determinant of competitiveness and sustainable development of the construction company in modern conditions. The effectiveness of the implementation of the intellectual potential of engineering and management training organizations to provide adequate control system. The result of research supports the proposed system of diagnosing, monitoring and evaluation of personnel potential, ensuring effective management of personnel and construction company as a whole, improving the quality and competitiveness of products. As part of the monitoring of personnel potential it has developed a list of qualities of managerial employee. The proposed system of monitoring and evaluation of human resource capacity building organization, in turn, passed on the basis of the practical testing of construction companies of JSC «Rostovgorstroy» and LLC «Integro Steele» in Rostov-on-Don.