Management institutions and the sustainability of geostrategic and economic development of the Arctic territories of the Far East in the modern context

The research continues the series of studies previously carried out by the author, aimed at investigating the features of spatial and economic development of the Arctic territories of the Far East. These territories are considered in close infrastructural connection with the “sub-arctic” high-latitude regions of the Far North, which, as the author proves, represent a single spatial and economic system. The aim of the study is to identify the directions of transformation of institutional structures and mechanisms in the management of the territories under consideration based on the analysis of a number of international and domestic scientific papers, as well as the results of the author's previous research. In theoretical and methodological terms, based on the cluster approach, the necessity of forming a “meso cluster” here is substantiated for the first time, representing a single complex of mining industries specializing in these territories and acting as a structure-forming basis for further institutional transformations in their management. The emphasis is placed on solving specific problems of institutional transformation – coordinating the management functions of formal and informal institutions, both the “meso cluster” and the entire newly formed spatial and economic entity in order to increase its economic and geostrategic stability in the context of emerging crises in the natural, environmental, political, socio-economic and public spheres.