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«IZVESTIYA IRKUTSKOGO GOSUDARSTVENNOGO UNIVERSITETA». SERIYA «NAUKI O ZEMLE»
«THE BULLETIN OF IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY». SERIES «EARTH SCIENCES»
ISSN 2073-3402 (Print)

List of issues > Series «Earth Sciences». 2024. Vol 49

Uneven Development and Typology of Municipalities of the Irkutsk Region

Author(s)
L. A. Bezrukov, Z. V. Abramova
Abstract
The methods of assessing the unevenness of socio-economic development and the typology of municipalities of the Irkutsk region are presented. The classification of municipalities by the size of the gross municipal product (GMP), which consists of the sum of the value volumes of four main types of economic activity: industrial products, agricultural products, services, investments in fixed assets, is proposed. All municipalities are classified into five classes: with a very large GMP, large, middle, small, and very small. The functional typology of municipalities was developed based on their specialization in the main assessed activities, that is, the dominance of extractive industries, manufacturing, services, agriculture, and the investment complex in the structure of the GMP. Accordingly, five functional types of municipalities are identified: resource-based, industrial, agricultural, service, investment; the presence of a sixth type –“regional center” is also justified. The methodology for assessing the economic and geographical position (EGP) of municipalities as a factor of their uneven development is revealed, taking into account two basic components of the EGP: centralperipheral and transport-geographical. As a result of the assessments municipalities are differentiated according to the degree of favorability of EGP into four categories: with the most favorable position, relatively favorable, unfavorable, extremely favorable. The assessment of the level of socioeconomic well-being of municipalities is presented based on the use of five key indicators: average monthly salary wages (excluding regional coefficients and northern allowances), the size of its own center, the level of registered unemployment, the commissioning of residential buildings, and the balance of migration. The distribution of municipalities into four groups of this level has been established and explained: prosperous, relatively prosperous, stagnant, backward and depressed. It was determined that the level of socio-economic well–being of municipalities is 42 % is due to the value of their GMP and 43 % by the degree of favorability of EGP.
About the Authors

Bezrukov Leonid Alekseevich, Doctor of Sciences (Geography), Chief Research Scientist, V. B. Sochava Institute of Geography SB RAS, 1, Ulan-Batorskaya st., Irkutsk, 664033, Russian Federation, e-mail: bezrukov@irigs.irk.ru

Abramova Zinaida Vladimirovna, Postgraduate, Department of Geography, Cartography and Geosystem Technologies, Irkutsk State University, 1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation, e-mail: www.ab.zina@gmail.com

For citation

Bezrukov L.A., Abramova Z.V. Uneven Development and Typology of Municipalities of the Irkutsk Region. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Earth Sciences, 2024, vol. 49, pp. 3-28. https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3402.2024.49.3 (in Russian)

Keywords
municipalities, uneven development, gross municipal product, functional types, socioeconomic well-being, economic and geographical location.
UDC
911.3(571.53)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3402.2024.49.3
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