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Within the context of conditions for the existence, activity and development prospects of a region's territorial communities, a resource approach is something of particular significance. A region's development depends on the participation of city dwellers and villagers, these being the main territorial communities, in processes such as modernization and the social development of territories. From the author's perspective, the future of any given region is determined by social resources bearing a space-time nature, which include the quantitative and qualitative composition of the population (human resources), human and social capital, eventfulness, and social activism. The social resources of territorial communities are one of the important basic components for fulfilling the domestic demands of the population: life-supporting, existential; the demand for solidarity connections, national-ethnical, labor, leisure, educational and cultural relations; as well as self-fulfillment and self-actualization. This article's author notes that the social resources of territorial communities provide external communication with other communities and territories, defining the competitive capacity and investment appeal of any given region, as well as the qualitative and quantitative composition of migration flow. What makes social resources, which can be defined as a product of people collaborating and cooperating, unique in comparison to material resources, according the author of this article, is down to such properties as the ability to capitalize and constantly reproduce, replenish as a result of the development of territorial communities, the advancement of forms of governance and self-management, shifts in people's social qualities during the process of socialization, education, self-education and self-fulfillment on a certain territory. The sociological-managerial approach's "new agenda" consists of proactive creation, development and advancement of social resources, while keeping them within a certain territory. A region's social resources ensure its stable operation and advancement as a socio-economical and communicative system, existing within a certain space-time continuum. A multitude of differences in the existence of territorial communities, on the one hand, and the reduction of the uniqueness, individuality and manners of cultural consumption, social interests and relations under the influence of globalization on the other hand – this all indicates the emergence of a new scenario, new opportunities and limitations in terms of regional development. These social transformational processes are in need of sociological introspection in order to define the trajectory for the development of Russian regions, to examine collaboration between urban and rural social communities within the context of a single regional system, and to improve social management.

On the basis of data derived from a complex sociological study the authors analyze modern approaches to studying territorial identity, its structure, and the factors that have an impact on its formation. In this day and age of Russian society territorial identity is a key indicator for solidarity and consolidation of the country's people. Territorial identity is a phenomenon constructed in the process of management using communication technology; one of such technologies is the symbolism technology. We regard cultural memory as a social resource within the symbolism technology which is capable of constructing the territorial identity of the studied region using historical, military, and modern territorial symbols. The present work is based on the hypothesis that the spatial and temporal continuum of the Volgograd region relies only on the region's symbolic resource. In the minds of urban and rural residents, the Volgograd region is mostly associated with the symbols of the Stalingrad battle and the Great Patriotic War. This promotes consolidation of urban and rural residents, building a stable regional identity. However, this is also a factor holding back the region's development in the present and future and affecting migration sentiments among the young people, especially urban residents who wish to leave the region under study with its "frozen time". These ideas are confirmed by the findings of the grant study carried out by the authors. The objective of the present paper is to reveal different ways in which territorial identity is manifested, in reproduction and assimilation of cultural memory by the urban and rural territorial community.