The Sectoral Structure of the Economy of Russian Regions as a Factor of their Development in 2020

The dynamics of development and the structure of the economy of Russian regions are considered in the article on the basis of data on the volume of goods shipped, works performed and services performed by own forces for a full range of organizations in 2019 and 2020, as well as industrial production indices; the “shift and share” method is used. It is shown that, as in all previous crises, the sectoral structure of the regional economy was a significant factor in their economic dynamics. Despite the specifics of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic (the maximum rate of decline in some types of services and the extraction of fuel and energy resources; on the contrary, significant growth in healthcare, the production of medicines and medical materials, and the IT sector), in 2020, patterns typical of all economic crises appeared. This is a positive impact on the economic dynamics of the regions of a high degree of economic diversification and the availability of high-tech industries, highly qualified personnel; as a result, in economically developed regions, restrictions in certain types of services were mitigated by the active introduction of digital technologies, in some cases even compensated by the dynamic development of other sectors. The traditional differences between the production of durable goods, which is experiencing a strong decline, and the production of everyday goods, which is relatively stable during the crisis, have also emerged.

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