Transformation of mono-industry direction of oil and gas producing region by creation of interregional agglomerations

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to consider the possibilities of converting the mono-industry direction of the economy of oil and gas producing regions in the Russian Federation. The analysis of the problem is carried out on the example of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District (Ugra). The proposed method, which ensures modernization of the regional economy and reduction of the mono-industry factor, is the creation of agglomeration. It is argued that the synergistic effect of the implementation of the proposed toolbox would overlap with the Groningen effect currently observed in Ugra. An analysis of the existing institutions in the territory of the district and adjacent territories has been carried out, and measures to transform the institutional environment have been proposed. Based on the consideration of foreign experience (USA, China) and Russian specifics, it was concluded that the construction of agglomerations as a development of one city does not always solve the problems of development of the region, so the article proposes to consider in the context of agglomeration development the union of several regions - megalopolis. The Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District under such a development model will integrate with Tyumen, subsequently entering the promising market of China. At the same time, the «axis» of interaction formed will be a promising direction of social and economic development of the cities and settlements occupied in it. Such a move could be projected to other regions of the country. In the future, the vector for such interregional agglomeration is proposed to move away from Russia ‘s usual path of development and consolidation of one city and to focus on the path of development of American associations, the scale of which is higher: BosVash, San, ChiPitts, and in which interaction and effect from it affects not one, but several cities at once.