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Problems and Prospects of Development of the Resort City of Sochi under Modern Conditions

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The article deals with the main issues of socio-economic development of the resort city of Sochi. The scale of the positive impact of the 2014 Winter Olympics held in the city is assessed. An analysis of the key problems that impede the further development of the city is made. Measures and tools are proposed to help solve these problems. Ideas for the long-term development of Sochi are formulated and substantiated.

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Notes

  1. Federal State Statistics Service of Russia. https://rosstat.gov.ru/compendium/document/13282.

  2. Rosrealt. Year dynamics of real estate prices in Sochi. https://rosrealt.ru/sochi/cena/?t=dinamika.

  3. https://www.rbc.ru/business/25/01/2023/63d004dc9a7947fe-138eb5df.

  4. For example, for a small business with a maximum power of no more than 670 kW, the low voltage price in April 2023 in Sochi was 8–9 rubles/kWh against 6.5 rubles/kWh in Moscow.

  5. https://rutube.ru/video/ab8a76b128ad331302c4bffddf855b64/.

  6. Gasification of the city is clearly beneficial for the power industry (14 boiler houses still operate on coal and liquid fuel, and 12 operate on more expensive liquefied gas), housing and communal services business (management companies and homeowners associations), the population and the city administration.

  7. https://realty.ria.ru/20200709/1574116858.html.

  8. https://rek.krasnodar.ru/upload/iblock/d42/14_2020_ip-ot-11.12.2020-Sochi.pdf.

  9. http://vmp49.narod.ru/2012-04-26-41.pdf.

  10. As a rule, these are STPs as part of large hotel complexes located along the coastline and built back in Soviet times, or large enterprises.

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  12. https://kuban.mk.ru/social/2022/02/03/v-sochi-nashli-211-kilometrov-beskhoznykh-livnyovok-nichi-seti-vodosnabzheniya-i-gazoprovod.html.

  13. Analytical note on the results of the social-economic development of the municipality city district “resort city of Sochi” in the Krasnodar Territory for March 2022 // Official portal of the resort city of Sochi. https://sochi.ru/upload/iblock/a3d/a3d4-4202916a1a16e7bdce02693b2e2f.docx.

  14. The prospects for the development of the resort city of Sochi was assessed in the Kuban Parliament, on the traditional Day of the Municipality. https://www.kubzsk.ru/news/25656/.

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  17. Official portal of the resort city of Sochi. https://sochi.ru/zhizn-goroda/gradostroi/obekty-nezakonnogo-stroitelstva/obshchaya-informatsiya/.

  18. https://kuban.rbc.ru/krasnodar/freenews/63ebba969a79472-d-b7bdfbcb.

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  1. Institute of Economic Forecasting, 117418, Moscow, Russia

    D. B. Kuvalin, V. V. Semikashev & K. V. Yankov

  2. Sochi State University, 354000, Sochi, Russia

    E. K. Vorobey & G. D. Bryukhanova

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Kuvalin, D.B., Vorobey, E.K., Semikashev, V.V. et al. Problems and Prospects of Development of the Resort City of Sochi under Modern Conditions. Stud. Russ. Econ. Dev. 34, 880–889 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1075700723060084

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