Post-single-industry feature as a pre-liquidating stage of the rural area’s social regress

The scale of the rural economic and social degradation is analyzed by a case study of the Elovsky municipal district of Permsky Krai. The transition to the post-single-industry stage of transformation which is a pre-liquidating stage of the administrative territorial entity’s social regress is investigated. The research analyzes the production loss impact on the scale of the rural municipal district’s social regress consisting in the loss of skilled personnel, aging of the population, and depopulation as a result of migration and natural decline. A new wave of the population migration due to the deteriorating living conditions is predicted. The budget organizations’ labor market contraction, the decreased education and health care availability, the increased transport isolation of the rural population are supposed to take place. The author concludes that it is necessary to develop new approaches to manage the rural areas characterized by near-zero rates of social and economic development.