R-ECONOMY, 2020, 6(2), 111–124 doi: 10.15826/recon.2020.6.2.010 Original Paper doi 10.15826/recon.2020.6.2.010 Analytical tools for economic research of small municipalities and gaming techniques for community involvement (the case of Voronezh region in Russia) M.I. Solosina1 , I.N. Shchepina1, 2 1 Voronezh State University, Voronezh, Russia; e-mail:
[email protected] 2 CEMIRAS, Moscow, Russia ABSTRACT KEYWORDS Relevance. The article deals with the issues of strategic territorial development in Russian regions and municipalities and the analytical tools for studying them. analytical tools, gaming While there is a diversity of tools for studying large municipalities, the choice of techniques, strategic territorial tools for smaller urban and rural settlements is quite limited. This is the research development, municipality, gap this study seeks to address. Research objective. This study focuses on the systemic approach case of municipal districts and settlements in Voronezh region. The aim is to show how the proposed methodology can be applied for such cases. Data and methods. The study relies on the methods of systemic analysis and synthesis, comparison and generalization, multidimensional statistics as well as on the use of gaming techniques. The data for the analysis were obtained from federal, re- gional and municipal statistics; municipal information systems of settlements of Voronezh region; municipal information system MISS ‘Volost’; and from the executive authorities of Voronezh region. Results. The analysis of the set of in- dicators, including the municipal product to GRP, for the period between 2006 FOR CITATION and 2015 has shown that the town of Liski is one of the leading municipalities in Voronezh district (the municipal product of Liskinsky accounts for over 5% of Solosina, M.I., Shchepina, I.N.