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One of the most well-known and relatively easy to compute integral indicators of sustainable development is the indicator of genuine savings. In the present article the emphasis is made on the modifications of the method of genuine savings calculation for the level of municipal units on the example of single-industry towns (monotowns) of Siberia and the Russian Far East. This choice of the object of the study is conditioned by the hypothesis that it is municipalities that experience most of the environmental and social consequences of economic growth in regions. The enterprises’ reports gave rise to the database, which was then used to calculate the genuine savings values of Siberian and Far Eastern single-industry towns. The result is a new classification of single-industry towns, which includes four clusters allocated depending on the level of genuine savings, industry of specialization and population. The new approach to the classification of singleindustry towns can be used by regional and municipal authorities to form a differentiated policy for the sustainable development. The analysis of the average genuine savings of different towns by region has shown that even if the region as a whole is characterized by quite high values of genuine savings, the towns, in which there are real enterprises that yield most of the gross domestic product of the country, experience negative values of genuine savings and are often on the verge of environmental or social disaster

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The paper provides a comprehensive review of empirical research on the sustainability of development of Russian regions. Methods of bibliometric analysis are used to achieve the set task. Samples of publications for substantive analysis are constructed using the leading academic databases: Scientific electronic library eLIBRARY.ru and its project Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI), Scopus, Web of Science. The results of the study show that despite the increasing public and political attention to the problems of sustainability, ecologization of the economy, improving the well-being of the population, there are few high-quality scientific studies that make a significant contribution to the analysis of sustainability of the Russian regions. Most of the research is of a staged or descriptive nature, and there are very few quantitative studies that are in such high demand on the modern international scientific market. For example, assessments of sustainability levels have covered only a small part of Russian regions over a very short period not exceeding five years on average, and using a very narrow range of tools. This is clearly insufficient for use as alternatives to traditional macroeconomic measures of well-being of territories, which significantly narrows the demand for these results in practice. The shortage of publications on the topic of sustainability of Russian regions can be perceived as a direction for the development of relevant research, opening new directions and even creating new teams