FORMATION OF TERMINOLOGICAL COMPLEX IN THE SPHERE OF STUDYING TRANSBORDER TERRITORIAL UNITS
The paper sketches the allocation of border adjacent settlements worldwide and in Russia. Based on presented overview of concepts describing said type of places, the author puts forward a term of transborder territorial unit. It means intermunicipal integration initiatives on the borderland. Its chief advantages comprise flexibility, correctness, applicability in legal documents and in various border regions both in Europe and Asia, Africa and America. The notion of "transborder territorial unit" follows managerial approach to scrutiny of border-divided cities. The article traces geographic spread of "twin cities" concept, generalize its interpretations and dimensions of critique. To define the process of constructing the ground to be regarded as "twins", the author proposes the term "twinning the cities".