The article analyzes the limits of implementing municipal socio-economic policy using the example of the Vladivostok urban district. Despite the concentration of federal support measures, special legal regimes, and urban planning tools, the opportunities at the municipal level remain significantly limited in legal, institutional, and economic terms. The lack of a legal definition of municipal socio-economic policy is noted, which determines its doctrinal understanding through a system of goals, powers, and public governance tools. Issues related to the functioning of the free port regime, the limited powers of the KRDV (Regional Development Corporation), changes in preferences for residents, the complexities of integrated territory development, and the influence of protective and monetary-credit restrictions are revealed using the context of Vladivostok. It is concluded that there is a disproportion between the tasks of accelerated city development and the limited range of tools available to municipalities for influencing investment, land, and institutional processes. The methodological basis of the research includes general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis, formal-legal and comparative-legal methods, as well as the analysis of regulatory acts, municipal documents, and statistical data. The limitations of Vladivostok's municipal socio-economic policy have a multilayered character: they arise from the lack of a legal definition of the category itself, from the disproportion between development goals and the scope of actual municipal powers, from the imposition of special legal regimes on urban space, from the dependence of construction on the external monetary-credit environment, and from conflicts of territorial consolidation in the absence of local legitimization of decisions. In practical terms, this means the need for more precise delineation of competencies between levels of public authority, more cautious handling of territories removed from the ordinary economic turnover, stricter empirical verification of construction dynamics based on primary registries, and mandatory consideration of socio-political reactions when transforming adjacent municipal territories. Only by combining these conditions can municipal socio-economic policy be interpreted not as a set of declarative tasks, but as an implemented system of coordinated legal and managerial decisions.
Vasilii Aleksandrovich Vasil'ev (Fri,) studied this question.