Innovative development of university educational and laboratory facilities for working with modern information and telecommunication systems in the conditions of digital economy

The article discusses the main trends in the development of the socio-economic life of people associated with the active introduction and improvement of the digital economy. The positive aspects of the developed Concept for the development of the material and technical base of the Samara State University of Railway Transport in the specialty “Telecommunication systems and networks of railway transport” are considered.