INTER-MUNICIPAL COOPERATION AS AN ELEMENT OF ESTABLISHING URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS

The establishment of urban agglomerations, or large-scale complex territorial units, is one of the global trends. In modern democratic states, the practice of managing urban agglomerations successfully applies mechanisms of inter-municipal cooperation as the primary means of cooperation between municipalities. At the same time, he Russian Federation’s inter-municipal cooperation institution is underdeveloped, preventing municipalities from working together to solve local challenges by transferring powers and resources between municipalities of the urban agglomerations. In this regard, the article examines the prospects for the development of legal regulation of special forms of inter-municipal cooperation in urban agglomerations, which is distinguished by the transfer of powers to resolve local issues between municipalities within the agglomeration.