STATE REGULATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF TERRITORIES WITH SPECIAL ECONOMIC STATUS
The article identiﬁ es and examines major challenges of the socio-economic development of so-called mono-cities and closed administrative-territorial entities in Russia. The authors argue that these areas require a state policy aimed at diversifying the economy, creating favorable conditions for the growth of entrepreneurship, especially small businesses, and improving social and engineering infrastructure. According to the article one of the most promising tools for adapting these "crisis" regions to free market conditions may be the creation of so-called “territories with advanced social and economic development”, that means territories with special business regime, tax exemptions and incentives and other measures of state support that positively affect both social and economic development of individual municipalities as well as regional and national economy as a whole.