Ustinkin S.V., Morozova N.M., Kukonkov P.I. Infrastructural constraints of the social development of small towns (on the example of the Nizhny Novgorod region). In: Sociocultural potential of small towns of Russia: collection of articles ...

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The article discusses the key problems of the social infrastructure of small towns in the Nizhny Novgorod region. It is noted that a natural consequence of the processes taking place in recent years in small towns of the Nizhny Novgorod region is the preservation of social infrastructure, in which stagnant phenomena persist and often increase. According to the authors, the presence of significant imbalances in the degrading social infrastructure of small towns affects, first of all, the health and education infrastructures that are critically important for small towns. The authors of the article substantiate the conclusion that an important condition for the preservation and development of small towns can be a purposeful process of minimizing and in the future eliminating negative trends characteristic of both a large city and a rural settlement.

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