Accessibility dynamics of social services in the settlements of the Komi Republic

Accessibility of social services is an important factor in creating a comfortable living environment. The need to improve it in remote and insufficiently infrastructural areas is associated with the problem of discrimination in the provision of social services to some population in the Komi Republic. The content of the poly-structural category “accessibility” refers to human rights. The authors have identified a steady trend of thinning out the network of settlements, induced by depopulation and affecting the territorial organization of education through the creation of a mobile school network. The authors consider the dynamics of healthcare and education networks, as well as ground transport and information-communication infrastructures. The conclude about the comparative dynamism of the information-communication factor of the accessibility of social services. The article contains the complex assessment results of settlements with isolation of a group of critical settlements characterised by a quantitative and qualitative infrastructure deficiency. This deficiency is proposed to compensate through creation a flexible, dynamic and promising information-communication infrastructure.