Наголошено на необхідності та невідкладності проведення адміністративно-територіальної реформи в Україні. Названо основні чинники з урахуванням яких має відбуватися зміна адміністративно-територіального устрою держави. Коротко проаналізовано найбільш актуальні питання, пов"язані з втіленням реформи в життя. Запропоновано заходи, які можуть, на думку авторів, ще до повного впровадження в життя реформи, пропонованої українською владою, досить швидко покращити матеріальний стан нині існуючих сільських громад та управління ними.
Отмечена необходимость и неотложность проведения административно-территориальной реформы в Украине. Названы основные факторы с учетом которых должно происходить изменение административно -территориального устройства государства. Кратко проанализированы наиболее актуальные вопросы, связанные с проведением административно-территориальной реформы. Предложены мероприятия, которые могут, с точки зрения авторов, еще до полного внедрения в жизнь предложенной властью реформы довольно быстро улучшить материальное состояние ныне существующих сельских громад и управление ими.
The necessity and urgency of administrative-territorial reform in Ukraine are underlined. The main factors which should be taken into account during the changing& of administrative-territorial structure of the state are named. The most actual questions, related to conducting administrative-territorial reform, are named and shortly analyzed. From the point of view of the authors, some measures which could quic&kly improve financial state of now existing rural communities and their management before the full implementation in life of proposed by the power reforms are suggested.
In the transition from administrative-command to market economy there was a sig&nificant reduction in production or full stop of existing enterprises in small settlements. This has resulted in a sharp decrease in revenues to the local budgets, total unemployment and a significant reduction in the population. In such circumstance&s, life itself dictates necessity of changes and the question of effective management of administrative and territorial units and preservation of their infrastructure becomes extremely important. The most important thing is to determine, what changes& are needed and which improvements in the life of communities they are able to provide in the short term. On the one hand, the radical changes envisaged by the new legislation should be made or the regions should be eliminated, and after enlargement &of districts, counties should be created together with eliminating regional and district administrations. On the other hand, existing rural communities should be enabled to control the resources which belong to them but, due to various reasons, are n&ot controlled by them. In our opinion, reforming the administrativeterritorial structure should take into account the natural, economic, historical, ethnic, cultural, social and other factors, which are currently affecting the socio-economic developm&ent of the existing communities and which will seriously influence the socio-economic life of the newly formed associations of citizens in the future.
Works of many professionals in the fields of social and economic geography, public administration,& regional economics, etc. are dedicated to the research of characteristics of administrative-territorial reform of our country. Processing of these publications has shown that many of the problems associated with reform are not investigated enough an&d this issue will be extremely important for the government, academics and citizens of Ukraine for a long time.
The purpose of this research aims to highlight the specific characteristics and problems of administrative-territorial reform in Ukraine.& The objective is connected with implementation of the following tasks: evaluation of socio-economic situation of the currently existing rural communities; identification and analysis of the most appropriate for the citizens and government conditions&
