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The article examines the problem of Russian single-industry towns in terms of national and economic security. Particular attention is paid to the dynamics of the population in the peripheral Russian company towns (in the North, Siberia and the Far East) are considered territorial claims to Russia from neighboring countries and geopolitical threats.

This article presents the views on solving the current problems of Russian single-industry towns in the context of macroeconomic instability. The historical and economic aspects of the emergence of factory cities in tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, the role of the phenomenon of single-industry towns in the development of the domestic material and technological base are investigated.