Consideration of Border Potential in Socioeconomic Development Strategies of TransUral Municipalities

In: Vestnik Tomskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta: naučnyj žurnal = Tomsk State University journal of economics. Ėkonomika, Heft 51, S. 35-59

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problems of the development of border areas of the Russian Federation. The aim of the study is to identify patterns between the level of development of border areas and the elaboration of the current strategy of the socioeconomic development of a municipal formation. The current state of the border of the Trans-Urals is analysed. An inverse proportion between the level of the socioeconomic development of the municipal formation and the length of the state border is revealed. The main areas of cooperation between the Kurgan region and the Republic of Kazakhstan are described. The use of the potential of the territory as a structural unit of the border space is assessed qualitatively. The article concludes that the borderline factor has a negative effect on the quality of life in the region in modern conditions, and therefore the main adaptation mechanism of the population is migration to municipal formations with a higher level of socioeconomic development. The results of the study can be used in developing the socioeconomic development strategy of the border municipal formations.