The purpose of the study is to show the economic transformation impact on solving the problems of modernization of the socio-economic sphere of the mineral resource industry cluster operating in the mining region. The object of the research is the mineral resource industry cluster as a center of interaction between state, science, education and business for the implementation of innovative scientific, technical and socio-economic projects. The subject of the article is socio-economic relations concerning nature, focused in the mineral resource industry cluster of the mining region. The problems of sustainable development and modernization of the mineral resource industry cluster of the mining region are considered in terms of the socio-ecological-economic approach methodology, taking into account the economic transformation in the cluster, which ensures the scientific novelty of the study. The scientific merit of the study is the determination of the impact of the change in the types of economy on solving the problems of modernization of the socio- economic sphere of the cluster, based on the parity of nature and the economy in the mining region. It has been shown that clustering involving the potential of a world-class regional scientific and educational center is an effective mechanism for such modernization. The practical relevance of the study lies in the fact that its results can be used to clarify, taking into account the proposed approach, the state strategy of support and development of clusters, as well as regional cluster policy.

Abstract. This study is intended to establish theoretical foundations of the new industrialization of the mining region under the globalization. The urgency of the problem is due to a significant de-industrialization of many branches of the Russian economy as a result of the neoliberal macroeconomic paradigm in the years of radical market reforms. As a result, a number of Russian regions has formed the structure of industrial production, which is characteristic mainly for the countries of the raw materials periphery. The authors see the new industrialization (neoindustrialization) as a strategic tool for solving the problem. The trend that has formed in the Russian regional policy to transfer the responsibility for the economy modernization to the regional level has attached the special importance to regional studies. Exhaustion of predominantly raw-materials export model of economic growth has put Kuzbass, the mining region in Western Siberia, in the most difficult situation due to its tight dependence on the state of the world market of energy resources. This article presents a theoretical justification of the need, feasibility and advisability of neoindustrialization for the mining region in the conditions of globalization.

In the paradigm of sustainable industrialization the problem of update of the content of vocational training of personnel for solid minerals mining and processing enterprises is considered in the study using the case of the ecological and economic component. The urgency of the problem is determined by the necessity to inculcate in future executives and specialists of these enterprises the paradigm of thinking appropriate to the nature conservation sustainable industrialization of the Kuzbass region rather than the primary goods periphery. In Russian regional policy the transfer of responsibility for the economy modernization to the regional level has attached the special importance to the ecological and economic training of specialists for the main real economy of the region. The article substantiates the reasonability, necessity and feasibility of the update of the ecological and economic component of the education of the students of the Mining Institute of T.F. Gorbachev Kuzbass State Technical University for the nature conservation sustainable industrialization of the mining region.

The purpose of the study is to establish the relationship between the nature and the economy of the mining industry in the mining region in the context of the imminent depletion of the fuel and energy nonrenewable natural resources, which actualizes the research issue. The subject of the article is the qualitative relationship between nature and economy in the “nature -anthroposociety -economy” system. At the same time, the anthroposociety (man, society) is considered both as the creator of the economy, and as its condition along with nature. Much attention is paid to the world-view foundations of the issue -anthropocentrism and ecocentrism. In the study the issue of the relationship between nature and economy in the mining region is elaborated from the position of the holism methodology, which ensures the scientific novelty of the study. The scientific and practical significance of the study is in the establishment of the parity as a qualitative relationship between nature and economy in the mining region. This parity can be implemented to substantiate the transfer of the regional economic system of the Kemerovo region, an important mining region of Western Siberia, to a new resource-saving, high-tech and environmentally sound model of development.