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What is Single-Industry Towns (or Single-Industry Cities)

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Handbook of Research on Sustaining SMEs and Entrepreneurial Innovation in the Post-COVID-19 Era
These are settlements, cities in which there is one large enterprise (city-forming enterprise). That is, the economic life of the city depends on the economic activity of the city-forming enterprise. The population of a single-industry town does not exceed 250 thousand people. The emergence of the first single-industry towns was associated with the development of mining enterprises. The further emergence of single-industry towns is associated with the industrialization of the economy. In Russia for 2020, there are 333 monotowns.
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State Support of Russian Small and Medium-Sized Business in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Development Prospects
Elena Viktorovna Burdenko (Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Russia), Elena Vyacheslavovna Bykasova (The Moscow University of Finance and Law of Russia, Russia), and Svetlana Vladimirovna Mudrova (Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Russia)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 27
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6632-9.ch021
Abstract
The chapter provides a retrospective analysis of entrepreneurship development in Russia from the 9th century to 2020. It highlights four periods in the development of SMEs in Russia and gives characteristics of each of the periods. It also highlights criteria for classifying enterprises as small and medium-sized businesses according to Russian legislation. A retrospective analysis of government programs to support SMEs from 1994 to 2020 was carried out. The state support program, effective since 2016, “Strategy for the Development of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses in the Russian Federation for the Period Ending 2030,” is considered in detail. Attention is paid to target indicators of SME development until 2030. An analysis of measures of state support for SMEs in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic has been carried out, highlighting the most affected industries. An analysis of SMEs by region of Russia was also carried out. An analysis of SMEs in effected industries in the post-pandemic period is carried out.
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