Revitalization Models of Old Industrial Territories

Abstract

This article is based on field research conducted in southern Kemerovo Oblast and Altai Krai and examines the problems and prospects for structural changes in these regions. Several models for the revitalization of old industrial settlements (the cities of Novokuznetsk and Biysk, and the urban locality of Sheregesh) are specified on the basis of the collected data. The models represent the particular interaction of the territory’s government, business, and scientific complexes. Prescriptions for facilitating the revitalization process are formulated and defended within the framework of these models.

Keywords:

• economic revitalization
• old industrial cities
• industrial diversification
• tourism
• naukograd
• cluster
• Novokuznetsk
• Sheregesh
• Biysk

Notes

1. The analysis deliberately did not include the capitals of the federal subjects, which have a strong administrative resource.

2. The interaction of a similar triplex of actors is considered by the developers of the reindustrialization program of the Novosibirsk Region [2].

3. Naukograd (literally, “science city”) is used to describe cities with high concentrations of research and development facilities. In the Soviet Union, many were “closed” and were part of a larger network of similar science cities.—Trans.

4. In January 2017, the Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation “On Granting the Status of Naukagorod to Biysk (Altai Territory) by the Russian Federation until 2032.”

5. There have been many attempts to implement the idea of a technopark. The last attempt to create the Biysk innovation-production technology park was abandoned in September 2016.

6. Tourism of abandoned buildings.