Subregions in the Spatial Organization of the Russian Federation Regions

In recent years, a number of factors have emerged significantly focused attention on the problems and prospects for the development of Russian local self-government. This is the order of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin regarding the preparation of the new foundations for state policy in the field of local self-government; the introduction of a draft law on the general principles of local self-government organization in the country and, finally, the active dissemination of new forms of territorial structuring in the regions, such as agglomerations, economic zoning, various subregional entities, etc. All these tendencies relate to possible modifications in the activities of local self-government institutions. Using the example of a number of regions of Russia, the article examines the attempts of the subjects of the Federation to make certain changes in the interregional territorial structure and management of economic and social processes in order to ensure full and effective use of the municipal level potencial and the advantages of intermunicipal cooperation. Such innovations, in particular, are implemented as the formation of special subregions, which represent a territorial and economic phenomenon that is formed outside agglomerations and that establishes a system of sustainable intermunicipal economic interactions.