Reindustrial transfromation of the economic complex of an old industrial region

The fragmentary regional policy that was led in Russia in the 1990s of the XXth century had as its negative consequence the concentration of the main investment resources of the state by old industrial city forming industries. This fact later predetermined a contradictive structure of the industrial demand in the economy that constrained the innovative development of such regions. This fact “anchored” their technological underdevelopment. The author showed different approaches to the classification of old industrial regions of Russia. Their endogenous unevenness is prved. The common and specific features and attributes of these territories determined by the spatial localization are studied. The article underlines that the regional authorities of old industrial regions have as an economic basis an obsolete industry without offering other working places for people employed in it. The government very often has to postulate and implement its own quasi public industrial policy...