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ASSESSMENT OF THE TERRITORIAL ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION
The transition to a market economy has significantly changed the sectoral structure of the Russian economy, and also led to the transformation of the regional economic systems. The problems of economy of the Russian Federation regions, including from the point of view of their level of competitivenessí assessment, the analysis of irregularity and the peculiarities of evolution of the national economic space over the years has been studied by Russian economic scientists. The works of such scholars as A.S. Suspitsyn, E.A. Kolomak, A.S. Novoselov, A.S. Marshalova, G.A. Untura of the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, V.A. Loginov, E.V. Murashov pacific State University, A.V. Rudnickaya of Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics O.N. Bykov, V.R. Smirnov and others stand out.
Existing territorial structure of Russia was formed mainly under the influence of the principles of centralized economy and the actual practice of management in those conditions. The transition to a market economy is changing the balance of forces affecting the spatial development, comprehensively transforming the reasons behind the movement of goods in the country, investments, material, financial and human resources. In each period of time the Russian regions have been at different levels of socio-economic development, which manifests itself in a different capacity and different opportunities for self-development, and in different degrees of competitiveness in the inter-regional markets of goods and services.1
The main objective of these researches is not so much the assessment of current regional disparities as the analysis of trends in the development of macro and micro-regions, as well as the forecasting of transformation of economic space. Many works are devoted to the methodology of rating assessment of the competitiveness of regions and municipalities, which allows through the analysis of statistics to obtain integral assessment of competitiveness, to build profiles of regional attractiveness and to diagnose trends in regional development.
For example, the issues of the methodology of competitiveness assessment (or ranking) were addressed in a series of works of 20082011 by V.A. Loginova and E.V. Murashova. In particular, one work can be singled out: "Features of the rating assessment of the territorial economic systems competitiveness (exemplified by the municipalities),"2 which presented the structural...