TRANSFORMATION OF OLD INDUSTRIAL REGIONS IN A RECESSION

The article substantiates a systematic approach to the transformation of old industrial regions in a recession, which, in contrast to existing ones, allows to detail the conceptual and categorical apparatus on the formation of old industrial regions; to structure the main features of the old industrial regions; to form ways of transformation of old industrial regions in the conditions of recession; is based on special research methods: abstract-logical analysis, systematization and combination, terminological analysis, method of theoretical generalization, method of monitoring, statistical analysis, graphical and tabular approach. The conceptual and categorical apparatus on the formation of old industrial regions is detailed and it is determined that the old industrial region is a socio-economic system that has a retrospective historical period of formation in which it could not move from production to production of ideas, operates in a recession with degraded structure, physically depreciated fixed assets and constant lack of capital and current financing. The main features of old industrial regions are determined: branch, regional, infrastructural, investment-innovative. Monitoring of the state and trends of development of old industrial regions of Eastern Ukraine was performed: analysis of general indicators of development of old industrial regions (population dynamics, migration growth, natural increase, poverty rate, unemployment rate); the development trends of industrial enterprises were monitored on the basis of absolute and relative indicators (number of industrial enterprises, % of unprofitable enterprises, volume of output, volume of sold products, profit, loss, number of employees). The ways of transformation of old industrial regions in the conditions of recession are offered: definition of anti-crisis strategy on the basis of monitoring of retrospective periods; formation of own regional policy and investment base for its implementation; support of old industrial regions and cities based on innovative aspects of the industrial revolution 4.0, integration of regions into the system of world economic relations based on the experience of post-industrial countries.