Vydrin Igor Vyacheslavovich

Этот номер журнала «Муниципалитет: экономика и управление» необычный. Во-первых, он юбилейный, 55-й по счету, а это ко многому обязывает. Во-вторых, он тематический, сконцентрированный главным образом на вопросах муниципальной и региональной экономики, которые отражают и научную специализацию журнала, и его муниципальный профиль. В-третьих, он подготовлен с участием приглашенного редактора – директора Школы экономики и менеджмента, заведующего кафедрой теории, методологии и правового обеспечения Школы государственного управления и предпринимательства Института экономики и управления Уральского федерального университета, доктора экономических наук, профессора Ирины Дмитриевны Тургель. Именно она определила основной контент номера и его направленность. Но профессор Тургель не просто приглашенный редактор. Ирина Дмитриевна – основательница «Муниципалитета», его первый главный редактор, идеолог, лоббист и просто добрый друг нашей редакции. В-четвертых, номер отличает нестандартный формат рубрики «Слово редактора», составленной в этот раз в форме интервью с профессором И. Д. Тургель. Наш разговор – о XX Международной конференции «Российские регионы в фокусе перемен», состоявшейся в ноябре 2025 г. в стенах Уральского федерального университета имени первого президента России Б. Н. Ельцина (УрФУ). 

Представляем читателям журнала «Муниципалитет: экономика и управление» главу городского округа Красноуфимск Юрия Сергеевича Ладейщикова. С ним беседует главный редактор журнала, доктор юридических наук, профессор Игорь Вячеславович Выдрин.

В течение октября-декабря 2025 г. в Уральском институте управления – филиале РАНХиГС в рамках дополнительного образования проводились занятия со слушателями специальной программы, получившей название «Эффективное управление муниципалитетом». Участниками программы стали вице-мэры, руководители подразделений местных администраций, должностные лица, включенные в кадровый резерв. В этом номере журнала «Муниципалитет» расскажем об опыте данной учебы, ее основных параметрах и полученном результате.

Редакция журнала «Муниципалитет: экономика и управление» продолжает рубрику «Разговор с интересным собеседником». С большим удовольствием представляем нашего первого в этом году гостя – академика Российской академии наук, председателя Уральского отделения РАН, вице-президента РАН Виктора Николаевича Руденко.

Анализ прошедших за последние месяцы муниципальных событий начнем с Единого дня голосования, состоявшегося в сентябре. Для начала – несколько цифр от председателя Центризбиркома Эллы Памфиловой. По ее данным, сентябрьские выборы 2025 г. проводились в 81 субъекте Российской Федерации, суммарно насчитывали более 5 тыс. избирательных кампаний, включая избрание 20-ти руководителей регионов, внушительного числа депутатов региональных парламентов и представительных органов местного самоуправления.

On New Year's Eve 2026, Grigory Andreevich Vikharev, head of the Beloyarsky Municipal District in the Sverdlovsk Region, was a guest of the editorial board of the journal "Municipality: Economics and Management." He spoke with the journal's editor-in-chief, Doctor of Law and Professor Igor Vyacheslavovich Vydrin, about local government, updated local government legislation, and the pressing concerns and practical actions of a municipal leader.

Сегодня в гостях у редакции журнала «Муниципалитет: экономика и управление» первый заместитель председателя Екатеринбургской городской Думы Михаил Никитович Матвеев. В беседе с главным редактором, доктором юридических наук, профессором Игорем Вячеславовичем Выдриным он поделился своими мыслями о настоящем и прошлом муниципальной власти Екатеринбурга.

В первом номере журнала «Муниципалитет» за этот год мы обращались к новому федеральному закону о местном самоуправлении, точнее, на тот момент – к его проекту, получившему название «Об общих принципах организации местного самоуправления в единой системе публичной власти». Его обсуждение заняло три с лишним года (!) (внесен в Государственную Думу 16 декабря 2021 г.), что вызвало множество вопросов, недоумений и комментариев на тему встраивания органов местного самоуправления в систему публичной власти. Она ведь теперь единая, но по-прежнему делимая на государственную и муниципальную властные ветви, о чем свидетельствует Конституция РФ (ст. 12) и вторящий ей новый закон: органы местного самоуправления не входят в систему органов государственной власти (ч. 6 ст. 1).

И вот, наконец, закон принят. Есть повод заострить внимание на его некоторых особенностях.

 Редакторская колонка прошлого номера «Муниципалитета» посвящалась проекту давно обещанного федерального закона «Об общих принципах организации местного самоуправления в
 единой системе публичной власти». Закон собираются принимать в развитие конституционной реформы 2020 г., объединившей под общим брендом публичной власти ее государственную и муниципальную ветви. Интрига, однако, в том, что законопроект существует более двух лет, много раз обсуждался на различных дискуссионных площадках и даже принят в первом чтении Государственной Думой, но до финальной стадии до сих пор не дошел. Во всяком случае, пока. Вопрос, конечно, не в том, примут или нет. Речь о другом– когда и в каком виде... Но это, так сказать, «большая» проблема. Между тем, существует множество средних и мелких проблем и проблемок, которые регулярно выявляются
 муниципальной практикой.

 Редакция журнала «Муниципалитет: экономика и управление» продолжает рубрику «Разговор с интересным собеседником». Нашим гостем на этот  раз является глава муниципального округа Богданович Олег Петрович Нейфельд, который рассказал о прошлом и настоящем Богдановича, его проблемах и планах на будущее.

Editor-in-сhief

A TALK WITH AN INTERESTING PERSON

Editor-in-сhief

Editor-in-сhief

Editor-in-сhief

Editor-in-сhief

Dear readers! The guest of the journal “Municipality: Economy and Management” is the director of the Ural Institute of Management of the Presidential Academy Oleg V. Gushchin. His interlocutor is the editor-in-chief of the journal, Advanced Doctor of Law, Full Professor Igor V. Vydrin. Official information. Oleg V. Gushchin was born on November 24, 1972 in Lesnoy, Sverdlovsk region. In 1996, he graduated from the Ural Academy of Public Administration (hereinafter referred to as UAPA) with a degree in Public and Municipal Administration. He continued his studies at UAPA with a degree in Jurisprudence and received the qualification of lawyer in 1998. In 2014, Oleg V Gushchin completed his master’s degree at the Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin (hereinafter referred to as UrFU) in the field of training in Social Work. From 1990 to 1998, he worked in the Komsomol and public service. In 1998, Oleg V. Gushchin was accepted into the civil service as the head of the Youth Policy Department of the Department of Youth Affairs and Relations with Public Organizations of the Sverdlovsk Region. From 1999 to 2010 - Director of the Department of Youth Affairs of the Sverdlovsk Region. During 2010-2019, Oleg V. Gushchin worked at UrFU as Vice-Rector for Social and Youth Policy, Advisor to the Rector’s Office. From 2019 to 2022 - Director of the Department of Youth Policy of the Ministry of Education and Youth Policy of the Sverdlovsk Region. Since October 2022 - Director of the Ural Institute of Management - branch of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Oleg V. Gushchin is a candidate of sociological sciences.

Research relevance. The article is devoted to the 95th anniversary of the publication of the two-volume book by Professor L.A. Velikhov "Urban economy fundamentals: general theory on cities, urban management, finances and economic management methods" (Moscow - Leningrad. Gosizdat. 1928. - 468 p.). In essence, this book was the last major scientific paper published in the USSR, the research subject of which was local self-government. Later, in 1930-1950s, references of this phenomenon in the Soviet Union were only negative, commonly as of the bourgeois democracy institution. This is why Velikhov's work gained its second fame only in the 1990-s in connection with the revival of self-government relations, theoretical and practical experience of municipal authorities development and functioning in modern Russia.
The methodological base is made up of general and particular scientific research methods: analysis, synthesis, comparison, historical-legal and formal-legal methods of understanding objective reality. While working on the article, the text of the "Urban economy fundamentals" monograph by L.A. Velikhov was studied, as well as publications dedicated to it and the author's scientific activity.
Research results and conclusions. Based on the research results, the conclusion was made about the impact of Velikhov's heritage on the development of the current Russian local government legislation, bringing it closer to state power, municipal law and management in the meaning of independent fields of legal and managerial science and the corresponding academic disciplines. 

The editor's word

The article is devoted to the issues of public relations regulation in the field of observance by local governments of the human rights and freedoms in the municipal territory. The focus is on the problem of interaction between state authorities and local government in terms of observance and protection of human and civil rights and freedoms. The authors consider this aspect using the municipal entity of "the city of Ekaterinburg" as an example. The article analyzes amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation of January - March 2020, which imply the renunciation of powers of municipal authorities in the field of public order protection, which is, at least, surprising. Currently, local governments must assist citizens and their associations, involved in the public order protection, in creating conditions for the popular squads' activity, carrying out measures for territorial and civil defense and extremism and terrorism prevention. In this context the authors consider the elimination of the function of protecting public order from their jurisdiction to be the utter nonsense. In this respect, a conclusion is made that such a limitation of the scope of local government activity leads to their dependence on public authorities in the field of legal relations, creates the prerequisites for the violation of human and civil rights and freedoms in the territory of municipalities. Moreover, these changes completely cross out the prospect of creating a municipal militia, which will lead to a new wave of legislative innovations aimed at bringing the existing regulations to the requirements of the updated Constitution of the Russian Federation. The article analyzes the federal legislation on local government, police, municipal legal acts adopted by local authorities of the city of Ekaterinburg. General and specific scientific research methods are used: forecasting, statistical, formal-legal and technical-legal.

Editor's note to the 45th volume of the journal "Municipality: Economics and Management"

Research relevance. The article is devoted to the charters of municipal entities, which are considered acts of supreme legal power in the system of municipal legal acts. In this regard, the author analyzes the "system of municipal legal acts" and "act of higher legal force" concepts, projecting their features onto the charters of the city of Ekaterinburg, adopted respectively in 1995 and 2005. The article provides the author's classification of the system of municipal legal acts.
The methodological basis of the study stems from the research subject. The formal-legal method of cognition contributed to analyzing the legislative norms regulating the system of municipal legal acts. The examination of the little-known pages of history related to the preparation and adoption of the charters of Ekaterinburg in 1995 and 2003 would have been impossible without the use of the historical and legal method. Comparison of the statutory norms of Ekaterinburg in their statics and dynamics provided for the use of a comparative legal method of analysis.
Research results and conclusions. The current charter of Ekaterinburg of 2005 is a completely independent legal document and hence, is not a "revised version" of the 1995 charter, as was commonly believed the first time after its adoption. It is fundamentally different in its performance from its predecessor, the city charter of 1995. Over the time, even those continuity features, which previously seemed unbreakable, have undergone changes: a three-member structure of municipal power (Head - Duma - Administration; majoritarian system of electing the Head of the city and deputies of the City Duma). The author analyzed the key changes and amendments introduced to the city charter at different times, the reasons for those. The article states that the charter of any municipal entity, as an act of supreme legal power, carries out the mission of a legal regulator of various municipal legal relations, serves as a source of other municipal legal acts, guarantees the implementation of certain civil rights, primarily in the field of municipal affairs management by citizens. 

Article from the column "My city" of the magazine "Municipality: economics and Management"

The journal “Municipality: Economics and Management” resumes the “Conversation with an interesting interlocutor” column, launched at the editorial initiative in 2019 with an interview with Arkady Chernetsky, the RF Senator and Alexander Kokotov, the Judge of the RF Constitutional Court (2020). It is with great pleasure that we introduce to the readers the new guest of the journal - Andrey Alexandrovich Koryukov - Deputy Head of Ekaterinburg Administration, responsible for financial and budgetary issues. Official reference. A. A. Koryukov was born on September 2, 1962 in Severouralsk. After serving in the Soviet Army, he studied at the Ural Polytechnic Institute majoring in “Economics and organization of the metallurgical industry”. After graduating from the university, he worked at “Research and production association “NPO Avtomatiki”, ZAO “Nash Dom”. Since 1997, he has worked in the Administration of Ekaterinburg as Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Economics, Deputy Head of the Financial and Budget Authority, Head of the Financial Department, Deputy Head of Administration. Between 2018 and February 2021 - Deputy Minister of Economy and Territorial Development of the Sverdlovsk Region. Currently, Andrey Alexandrovich is the Deputy Head of Ekaterinburg, supervising the activities of the financial block of the administration.

Article from the column "My city" of the magazine "Municipality: economics and Management"

Vydrin I.V. 1 1 Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration , Ekaterinburg, Russia

The aim of this research is to develop methodological foundations for designing socio-economic indicators of quality of activity of the local self-government representative body in the context of implementing transformations of the formation procedure and activity of local self-government bodies. The new competitive system for electing heads of local self-government is considered to create conditions for their meaningful interaction with the highest official of the region in the process of addressing both urgent and strategic municipal tasks, including in cooperation with the municipal representative bodies. However, under such system the representative body of local self-government having significant authority does not bear any responsibility for efficiency and quality of their implementation, which leads to the formation of the narrowly corporate and even self-interested targets in the deputies’ behavior. In a representative body, there is a threat of creating groups whose interests are often parallel to the interests of the population. In pursuing this goal, the authors used the method of managerial analysis of efficiency and quality of the local self-government representative bodies and the system-activity methodology for designing socio-economic quality indicators of its work. Results and scientific novelty: feasibility and efficiency of the model is assessed, where the head of the municipality is elected by the deputies upon the recommendation of the competition committee and also exercises authority of managing local administration; management paradoxes are revealed that can depreciate the political significance and efficiency of the ongoing transformations of local government bodies; methodological foundations are formulated to develop the socio-economic quality indicators of the local self-government representative bodies in the process of overcoming major managerial antinomy; a conceptual approach for assessing the quality of activity of a deputy of the local self-government representative body is formulated.

The subject of the study is the participation of local authorities in the preservation of historical and cultural heritage sites. Not being a matter of local importance, the protection and use of cultural monuments, nevertheless, places a serious burden on municipal authorities. This circumstance creates in practice many difficulties in the performance of this task. In addition, the situation is exacerbated by the collisions contained in federal legislation regulating relations in the field of conservation and use of monuments of the past. Methodology. The article is written on the basis of the theoretical-empirical approach to the investigation of the claimed subject. Much of the article covers materials of an empirical nature, obtained as a result of practical actions by the local self-government bodies of Yekaterinburg in the implementation of organizational and legal and other measures for the protection and use of antiquities. The results of the research, reflected in this article, concern specific proposals on the adjustment of federal legislation in the field of protection of cultural objects. Conclusions. The authors of the article propose, through legislative measures, to increase the share of municipal objects of cultural significance, which at present is negligible. At the same time, it is proposed to give local governments additional powers in the field of protection and use of historical and cultural heritage sites.

Purpose. The study is aimed at analyzing the works of Russian jurists of the second half of the XIX century the beginning of the XX century in the field of local government. Methodology. The research is based on retrospective, comparative and formal-logical methods of studying the analyzed subject, which allowed to reveal the views prevalent in the legal science of that time on the main problems of local government. Results. The opinions of leading Russian jurists on the correlation of local self-government and the state, the form of government by the state and the management of self-governing territories, the features of the spread of local self-government in Russia are established. Scientific novelty. Key conclusions, which belonged to various representatives of Russian legal science on the legal nature of local self-government, peculiarities of its territorial organization and practical activities, are formulated.

Purpose: The study aims to analyze the legal nature of the Charter of municipalities, their place in the system of other municipal legal acts, the role in the regulation of municipal law relations. Methodology: The study is based on retrospective, comparative and formal-logical method of studying analyzed object, allowing to compare the current charter of Ekaterinburg with its predecessor, to correlate changes in the charter with the adjustment of federal legislation. Results: The author reveals the legal trends that have changed the understanding of the role of the charter of the municipality in the municipal regulation of legal relations, its legal effect, the types of amendments made to the statutes of municipalities. Scientific novelty: formulated legal signs of Charters if the Self-Governing Territories, studied "history" of adoption of the charter of municipality "City of Yekaterinburg", howed its current status, Scientific novelty: analyzed the latest innovations of the federal legislation in terms of the introduction of new types of municipalities and other models of organization of local authorities.

In the article the author considers proposals on reformation of local self-government in the Russian federation introduced by the Institute of social-economic and political research in December 2013. Aimed at scaling down of local self-government in urban and municipal districts, they caused a patchy response in the Russian society.