Improvement of the resettlement programme for pensioners from the Far North (on the example of the Murmansk region)

Recently, in the northern single-industry towns there has been an outflow of the population, while the working-age population is declining mainly. Despite public policies aimed at creating new jobs in single-industry towns, this problem is still the main one. At the same time, the outflow of the disabled population, although it is a natural process for the northern regions, on the contrary it happens very slowly. In order to accelerate it, a state program was created to relocate citizens living in the Far North to regions with favorable climatic conditions. However, due to the lack of budget funds, huge queues began to form from those who wanted to move. In addition, realizing the possibility of obtaining housing in another region at the expense of the state, many northerners took a passive waiting position, which also slowed down the process of restructuring the composition of the population of industrial single-industry towns. The aim of this study is to solve the scientific and practical problem of improving the program for the resettlement of disabled people from the regions of the Far North, including single-industry towns of the Arctic zone, through the introduction of a mechanism of counter-resettlement.