Dolzhenko Ruslan A.

INTERVIEW WITH THE HEAD OF THE CITY DISTRICT

It is widely believed that the current century is going to be the one of cities. Life will concentrate around major agglomerations, and traveling around the world will be nothing more than a inter-megapolis transfer... Meanwhile, in Russia the percentage of the rural population, spread almost around the whole territory of the largest country, is rather high. Every third inhabitant in the Urals is a deep-rooted provincial. Pro-vin-cial. Can you feel - images of hopelessness, impassability and money lack start floating in your head? These stilted negative cliches deprive remote territories of a chance to overcome captive stereotypes, deprive of hope. And hope - symbolic capital - is sometimes of greater value than real money. What should local authorities do? Some stake on megapolis proximity, thinking about transport system and everyday manpower “export”; others conceive the metropolitan sheen in their own backyard, developing creative spaces, moulding fashion for naturality; and some have given up - if not Ekaterinburg, Moscow will help, when it gets even worse. Of all the“survival strategies”, the most important is experience - bad, good - different. And since, as is known, there are no prophets in our Fatherland, to gain management experience we are heading for a deeply provincial and once depressed area in the Altai Territory. More precisely - to the Blagoveshchenskyi territory. The place is "what you need”: 275 km west of Barnaul. Not a single city - only industrial townships. Risk farming zone. Sharply continental climate. The average temperature in January -18.2 ° C; July + 19.8 ° C. Clay, gravel and sand are the only natural resources. Andrey Gints, 62, has been the head of the local administration since 2008. A local: a native-born to the territorial center, which is Blagoveshchenka industrial township. So, the Altai experience of territorial management - to the Urals inhabitans.

The purpose of the research is to analyze the possibilities and limitations of using the university of the city as a center for scientific expertise of data on the population and their life in the territory to assist authorities and businesses in making management decisions regarding the development strategy of the municipality. A traditional university is a tool for teaching students in higher education programs. In addition to this key task, it can provide scientific, educational, creative activities for students. The trends in the development of higher education indicate the new mission of the university - to be the center of development of the territory where the campus is located. The main research methods used are document analysis, quantitative review of university development indicators, and assessment of university representation in strategic development documents of the city of Ekaterinburg. The analysis showed that large universities can focus scientific and educational expertise in the direction of developing the territory and city of presence, however, there are several institutional restrictions that do not allow this to be done promptly. To embed the university in the development processes of the municipality, turning it into a «think tanks» that ensures the development of the territory and the city in the current direction, the complex work of the authorities, the university management, involved employers, as well as applicants and their parents is required.

R. Yu. Valov was born on September 2, 1977 in the town of Sukhoi Log, Sverdlovsk Region. He began his career in 1996 at school № 17 as a physical education teacher. He worked his way up from a teacher to the head of the Education Department of the Sukhoi Log Municipal District Administration. On January 1, 2013, he was appointed First Deputy Head of the Sukhoi Log Municipal District Administration, and on June 26, 2017 he took up the post of Head of the Sukhoi Log Municipal District.

Research purpose - to develop a conceptually new approach to the higher education programs implementation in the format of vertically integrated programs (bachelor’s and master’s degree) to match the regional development strategies and objectives.
Introduction. Territorial development trends in the frames of strategic goals (literature review - previous research on the key directions of municipal development - smart cities, territorial ecosystems, social media, youth policy, etc. Problem formulation of the need to train specialists in these fields).
Methodology. The research object is a set of objectives which the municipalities are facing, the research subject is the relationship between the stakeholders of the educational process of training specialists to solve the territorial tasks. Information base - scientific publications indexed in the RSCI, Scopus, Web of Science databases. Research algorithm: analysis of the existing educational programs, literature review, new professions atlases study, labor market analytical reviews, foresights with employers, program development.
Results. A conceptual scheme to implement an integrated program of a multidisciplinary bachelor’s and master’s degree (table of the main blocks of bachelor’s and master’s programs).
Discussion. Advantages and disadvantages of the vertically integrated “Integrated Territory Development” bachelor’s and master’s programs.