Kuzbass as an object of strategic planning: current practice

The article features Kuzbass (the Kemerovo Oblast) as the object of research. This compact region has exceptional population labor skills and a developed infrastructure. It has opportunities to create and improve value chains in both primary industry (coal, iron ore mining) and processing (ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy, gas-based chemistry, oil refining, timber processing, and agriculture), as well as to use its high recreational potential. Kuzbass is also a unique territory since, for a long time, it has utilized strategic planning to search for optimal development paths. This region was the first in Russia’s practice of planning to raise a question on the need to reconcile the interests of business and implemented several such models, including pioneering ones. The research subject is the models of Kuzbass economic development, including strategic ones. An analysis of various model structures demonstrates that the more advanced the mechanisms that transform resource development into general economic one, the more effective the model is...