“…In the authors' opinion, a rural territory should be considered as a territory of agricultural activity with the presence of the rural population, as well as social infrastructure objects that need to be developed as a combination of social relations and institutional entities (Dashko and Kotiukov, 2017;Fedorinin and Zhuravlev, 2002;Yemelyanov et al, 2018a;2018c;Zagrivnyi et al, 2019;Yemelyanov et al, 2019). It is worth noting that the current level of socio-economic development of rural areas does not meet the interests of the rural population and does not provide a decent quality of life for the rural populationcarriers of the human capital of rural areas (Nechaev et al, 2018;Stoian et al, 2018;Sharafutdinov et al, 2017;Dmitrieva et al, 2017;Ponomareva et al, 2019a,b;Leonteva et al, 2018;Johnson and Hinton, 2019).…”