INCREASING LIVING STANDARDS AS A CONDITION FOR THE REVIVAL OF RUSSIAN VILLAGES

DOI 10.32651/244-119

Issue № 4, 2024, article № 18, pages 119-123

Section: Social problems of rural territories

Language: Russian

Original language title: ПОВЫШЕНИЕ УРОВНЯ ЖИЗНИ КАК УСЛОВИЕ ВОЗРОЖДЕНИЯ РОССИЙСКИХ СЕЛ

Keywords: STANDARD OF LIVING, RURAL SETTLEMENTS, INFRASTRUCTURE OF RURAL SETTLEMENTS

Abstract: It has been established that the reduction in the population living in rural areas is steadily accompanied by a reduction in the number of rural settlements. The emphasis is placed on the fact that the sharpest decline in the number of rural residents was observed from 2014 to 2021. The main reasons contributing to the outflow of rural residents to the city have been identified. The most significant include: level of income and employment, accessibility of medical care, level of education, improvement of housing, availability of cultural institutions, accessibility and quality of the transport system, communications, etc. The analysis showed that wages in agriculture are lower than in other sectors; the unemployment rate, on the contrary, is higher than in the city. As a result of the restructuring of the healthcare system, there was a significant reduction in the number of district and district hospitals, the closure of which led to a sharp deterioration in the availability of medical care, and the lack of paved roads in a significant proportion of settlements only aggravated this problem. Reforms in the education system have led to a significant reduction in rural schools over the past twenty years by more than 50%. The improvement of housing in rural settlements is much worse than in urban ones: only 41.1% of residential premises are simultaneously equipped with running water, sewerage, heating, hot water supply, gas or floor electric stoves. The social infrastructure of rural settlements has been largely lost. The measures taken by the state to revive villages have not yet made it possible to comprehensively solve existing problems.

Authors: Tuguskina Galina Nikolaevna