Agglomerations in economics, their roles and development
Social and economic development of territories is usually realized in forms of agglomerations. In agglomerations resources are used more efficiently, including human potential. This regularity is called synergetic or agglomeration effect. The article offers a classification of agglomerations with an application as a main criterion of agglomeration’s size, and a secondary one - its significance. Together with the offered notion of contribution level it will help to use agglomeration effect more efficiently. In the periods of rapid growth of industry agglomerations were created on the bases of one industrial enterprise and population aggregate for supplying with labor powers. These agglomerations with corresponding growth got the names of monotowns; there are 319 of them in Russia, with the population more than 14 million people; only 71 of them have stable situation. The unstable status comes because of full or partial closure of town-forming enterprises. The article offers a set of measures for socio-economic stabilization, in order to make the development process to growth. It requires a creation of new innovative enterprises of small and medium-sized businesses, including the enterprises for solution of import phase-out problems. The people aggregates with no perspectives should be connected with the perspective ones with high-speed transport.