| Аннотация | To substantiate the levers and mechanisms of influence on agglomeration processes in the territorial space, a significant and relevant area of economic science is theoretical and methodological developments related to identifying and assessing the potential of agglomeration processes in Russia’s regions, which is determined by the aim of the work. We have designed a system of indicators for agglomeration processes, which includes the following blocks: concentration of production and economic activity; concentration of population; concentration of science and technology potential and innovations; concentration of housing infrastructure; people’s welfare. The proposed methodological toolkit involves analyzing the specialization of Russia’s regions by calculating location quotient for certain types of economic activity and assessing the interaction of the territory’s agglomeration process potential and concentration of certain types of economic activity in it by constructing the matrix “agglomeration process potential in the region – location quotient for certain types of economic activity”. Our methodological approach was tested on 85 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The research period included the years 2000, 2008, 2016–2022. The information base comprised data from the Federal State Statistics Service. According to the results of the calculations, we see a high degree of differentiation of agglomeration processes potential in the Central and Northwestern federal districts. Intensive agglomeration processes are observed in the Kaliningrad, Leningrad, Rostov, Nizhny Novgorod, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen, Novosibirsk regions, Krasnodar and Krasnoyarsk territories, the city of Sevastopol and the Republic of Tatarstan. There is a low potential for agglomeration development in the North Caucasus and the Far East, and in some years there were no agglomeration processes in the Chechen Republic and the Republic of Ingushetia. The findings of our research can be used by regional authorities in designing strategic planning documents, by a wide range of researchers in the field of spatial economics, and by teachers and students in the framework of personnel training in economic specialties
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