The problem of development of depressive regions is extremely urgent in modern conditions. It is explained by the fact that due to unfavorable development factors in these regions, it is most difficult to ensure economic and social growth, to carry out infrastructure development, to attract external financing and investments. Depressive regions tend to have a low level of competitiveness and a prolonged economic decline in industrial production, accompanied by an increase in unemployment. The development of such regions is impossible without external intervention. Specialists in the regional economy have described indicators of such regions. They are: the rate of change in industrial production, the level of unemployment, the size of the gross regional product per capita, the industrial output per capita. It is necessary to attract investment in the economy of depressed regions in order to bring their economies to the stage of sustainable growth. It is possible due to the development of the innovation sphere. A key element of the innovative sphere of any region is its innovative infrastructure. In this connection, the analysis of the state and the definition of promising areas for the development of the innovation infrastructure of the "depressed" regions is an urgent and significant scientific task.The article analyzes the existing state of the innovation infrastructure of ten constituent entities of the Russian Federation, which are considered to be "depressive".The authors use the method of understanding factual data, the index method, the method of comparisons and the method of expert evaluations.According to the obtained results, the authors have defined the most promising directions for the development of the innovation infrastructure for these regions.

The article presents research materials to test the hypothesis about the possibility of using corporate social responsibility as a tool for ensuring personnel security. The authors use a target approach as the starting point of the methodological substantiation of the assumption. According to this approach, tools are only those CSR measures and actions that ensure the prevention of threats to personnel security. Based on two approaches (meaningful and functional) to the content of personnel security, the authors of the research prove the fundamental importance of the threat category for the functioning of the personnel security system. It is necessary to study this issue due to the lack of scientific works on the coordination of activities in the field of CSR and personnel security. The authors systematize a list of appropriate CSR actions in the field of social and labor problems, proposed by scientists and specialists and regulated by regulatory enactments, and a list of threats to the interests of the company's employees. The article presents the results of comparing the corresponding actions of CSR and personnel threats, which make it possible to prove the hypothesis.