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The article is devoted to the creation of Russian small cities' tourist product. The model of consumer behavior with respect to tourism products and the concept of tourist product value for consumer are considered; the necessity to form complex value propositions for target audiences segmented by their needs is substantiated. The offer of small cities' tourist product in three regions — Perm Krai, Vladimir Oblast and Tula Oblast is carried out. The possible
ways of developing and improving small cities' tourist product in these regions are determined. Particular attention is paid to the most promising areas for today - event tourism and cultural and educational thematic routes; high importance of gastronomy as part of the tourist experience is highlighted. The analysis leaded to identification of some problems, including insufficient use of event marketing potential to ensure a stable tourist flow throughout the year, as well as poor awareness of target audiences outside the regions. Recommendations proposed to improve the offer for target audiences.

The paper is devoted to characteristic of new industrial cities as a new type of industrial cities, formed under the new industrialization and digital economy. The authors developed and tested their own methodology for their selection based on the use of available data as well as the nature of the object of the research. The methods, applied for the research are statistical methods and methods for expert evaluation. Twenty-eight Russian cities could be regarded as new industrial ones. Most of them have more than 250,0 thousand people. The results may be used in investigation of new industrial cities from the economics, management, urban planning and others points of view. The presented methodology may be test for others countries except for the Russian Federation.

Mark Meerovich proposed a model of Soviet history of architecture and town-planning based on the principles of Georgy Petrovich Shchedrovitsky's activity theory. Georgy Petrovich's students used these principles as a baseline for articulation of the issue and handling of the situation. That is why the analysis of the Soviet housing legislation, which defines the character of solutions and the activity on different levels, enabled Mark Meerovich to see architectural and town-planning problems from another point of view. He formulated a holistic concept of Soviet principles of settlement, explained the reason of the failure of the idea of the garden city in the USSR and showed the principles of arrangement of "socialist cities", described the phenomena of "labour and household teams" and communal housing, and demonstrated the Soviet mechanisms of people management. Meerovich introduced for scientific use a lot of unknown materials concerning the activity of prominent Soviet and foreign architects of Stalin's era. ; Марк Меерович предложил модель советской истории архитектуры и градостроительства, выстроенную по принципам теории деятельности Георгия Петровича Щедровицкого. Принцип деятельности для учеников ГП был исходным для постановки проблем и ориентации в ситуации. Именно поэтому анализ советского жилищного законодательства, определяющего характер принимаемых решений и деятельности на разных уровнях, дал ему возможность выстроить целостную концепцию советских принципов расселения, объяснил провал идеи города-сада в СССР, показал принципы организации «соцгородов», описал феномены «трудо-бытовых коллективов» и коммунального жилья, а также показал советские механизмы управления людьми. Меерович ввел в научный оборот огромное количество неизвестных материалов, касающихся деятельности выдающихся советских и иностранных архитекторов сталинской эпохи.

The article seeks to identify the features of creative industries in Japanese cities with a population over 1 million people. Since there is no universal definition of creative industries in Japan and no officially adopted classification, we analyzed and aggregated various sources of information to develop a classification of creative industries, which takes into account specific features of Japanese culture and traditions. The analysis of creative industries in the largest cities has revealed that the advanced creative industry, i. e. "IT and computer services", is the most developed creative sector in Japan. The most widely spread traditional industries include "crafts and applied arts" and "architecture". For all 12 cities included in the analysis we calculated specialization coefficients, i.e. the ratio of the share of creative organizations and employed in the creative industries in a city to the corresponding shares of the industry in the country, and built petal diagrams for all creative industries. As a result, we have obtained an understanding about creative profiles of all largest Japanese cities. We applied a comparative-geographical method to identify territorial differences in the development of creative industries in Japanese cities, and a cartographic method to reveal the territorial structure of creative industries at the national level. The study has shown that the creative industries are unevenly distributed over the country and the territorial structure of creative industries in Japan is monocentric with hyperconcentration in Tokyo, the "creative hub" of the whole country, which is intended to become a creative center of Asia. Our study revealed that as the city's population decreases, the number of creative organizations and people employed in creative industries is declining quite steadily. The progress of the creative sector is an important component of the "Cool Japan" national policy, which views Japanese traditions and cultural heritage as innovations for economic growth and the development of creative industries. Depending on the number of found creative industries we identified first-, second-, and third-order "creative cores" which have a potential to become creative centers in their regions.