With the growth of energy consumption in cities and the reliability of power supply systems, more and more attention is paid. One of the indicators of the reliability of power supply to consumers is the average time of the post-emergency restoration of the line. When operating cable lines, it is important to have data on the flow of failures in cable lines and the average time of their recovery. And also take into account the seasonal changes in the flow of failures in urban cable lines and consider the influence of the flow of failures on the recovery time of the line.

This article analyses the influence of socio-cultural factors on the entrepreneurial activity of the younger generation. In recent years, there has been a noticeable decline in the development of small and medium-sized businesses in the Russian Federation. During the global economic crisis, which affected our country as well, there is a growing demand for a new generation of young entrepreneurs capable of playing more active role in the economy, business and society. The development of youth business should contribute not only to the training of qualified staff, but also to the fast-track transition of the country to the innovative path in the context of digital economy formation and progression. The article aims to investigate the impact of education, values and family background on entrepreneurs. The detailed review of the relevant literature and empirical research proved that socio-cultural factors are very important for raising new entrepreneurs, creation of new enterprises and, as a result, ensuring the growth of this segment of economy.

The article considers the possibilities of tax regulation of foreign trade operations through the use of customs and tariff regulation within the framework of supranational integration associations on the example of the Eurasian Economic Union. A model is proposed for constructing an optimal tariff policy of the countries participating in integration associations, taking into account the political and economic components of long-term targets for their development based on three groups of factors: state regulation, import tariff and integration effect. The results confirmed that the customs tariff policy is an effective tool for regulating foreign trade and its effect is enhanced within the framework of supranational integration associations, and tariff differentiation between importers is the optimal policy for the state, which aims to protect national markets and increase the competitiveness of domestic producers in global markets.

The article deals with the issues of innovative development of the retail business in a new paradigm of perception of the world, in which technologies develop faster than one generation is replaced by another. Since the basis of innovations in retail are achievements in the field of artificial intelligence, which allow optimizing costs, organizing storage and transportation of goods, attracting buyers, etc., when creating new formats of relationships with consumers, it is important to proceed from the degree of readiness of both target segments and merchants themselves to engage in a unique consumer experience. The analysis of the degree of readiness of the regional retail business for new initiatives made it possible to prioritize the areas of constant changes in their trading activities, taking into account the growth of sustainable trends in industry development. In this connection, it is argued that it is important to learn how to model your behavior through the practice of experimentation, to balance your business models, ensuring the flexibility of all processes and thinking.

Currently, digitalization affects almost all aspects of human life. The banking sector is no exception. The demands of bank customers are constantly growing. Every customer is looking for a service that can meet their needs as much as possible. And each bank, in turn, needs to interest and attract as many new customers as possible and retain old ones. In this regard, more and more interest is being paid to the quality of banking services when working with a client. There are various methods of assessing the quality of banking services. Thanks to the use of innovative technologies in the banking sector, it is possible to assess the quality of service today by using online services. One of the tools for assessing the quality of banking services based on online services is the «People’s Rating». It helps both customers and banks to get up-todate information about the quality of service.

The article analyzes the socio-economic development of the Donetsk People’s Republic based on the results of the first half of 2021. The key problems of socio-economic development of the Donetsk People’s Republic are grouped into four directions (political, socio-economic, financial, technological). The role of the digital economy as a new development paradigm is substantiated. A conceptual scheme of socio-economic development of the Donetsk People’s Republic has been developed taking into account the processes of digitalization.

The financial sphere of activity is the most susceptible to digitalization processes, therefore, the level of technological effectiveness in the development of banking products and services is one of the main factors in the competitiveness of any commercial bank. In this regard, the development and introduction of digital innovations in the bank’s activities is one of the main tasks of the strategic development of the banking business. The sensitivity of retail customers to improving the banking system determines the importance and need for digital transformation of lending to the population in modern conditions. At the same time, retail lending represents a significant share of banking assets and is one of the promising areas of development of the banking business. Digitalization of retail lending services will increase the quality and efficiency of lending to the population in Russian banks.

The purpose of the study is to conduct a comparative analysis of the Russian consumption model in the pre-coronavirus period and in the conditions of a pandemic to identify new patterns of consumer behavior, as well as to substantiate the vector of transformation of enterprises’ activities in accordance with the changes that have occurred. The scientific novelty consists in the study of the peculiarities of consumer behavior of Russians, in assessing its changes under the influence of the effects of the pandemic, as well as in justifying measures to reduce the time of adaptation of producers to new behavioral patterns. The article analyzes the structure of household consumption in Russia in the period 2014–2019, and systematizes the features of consumer behavior of the Russian population in the pre-coronavirus period. The effects of the pandemic that influenced the behavior of the Russian consumer are determined. New patterns that determine the nature of consumer behavior of Russians during the pandemic are systematized. It is proved that changes in consumer behavior should be reflected in the production and marketing activities of enterprises. Measures are proposed to ensure maximum efficiency of manufacturers’ adaptation to the changed conditions. The role of the state in overcoming the effects of the pandemic is determined, and institutional and organizational measures are proposed to optimize the ”rules of the game» in the market.

With the development of the mechanism of the Russian market, the competitiveness of enterprises and products has become especially noticeable. Indeed, in the absence of a sustainable competitive advantage at the level of each enterprise, it is impossible to create a competitive national economy as a whole. Solving this problem requires all market participants to actively search for new opportunities to increase their competitiveness. The purpose of this study is to develop ways to improve competitiveness based on strategic planning and rating assessment of competitiveness factors. The research results can attract the attention of government bodies at all levels, the scientific community and the expert community, and can also be widely used in research and practice.

In this article, we propose the formalization of the mesoecological model of the business environment of entrepreneurship in the Stavropol Territory. Successful foreign experience in the implementation of the mesoecological model of the business environment in France is presented. The metadata of the mesoecological model of the business environment and the factors for assessing the development of this environment for the subsequent development of a strategy to support entrepreneurship by the government of the Stavropol Territory are described. The significance of the proposed conceptual model that allows to determine the best product groups of the assortment of the territory of their sale is presented, the significance and ratio of the interrelation of these factors, suitable for finding the best promotion practices and their creation, is described, and the algorithm for obtaining the final economic result for the region (in the form of an GRP indicator) is shown. The proposed model complies with international standards and recommendations for strategic planning. The model takes into account the solutions used in well-known and recommended world standards and methods for developing strategies.

In the conditions of digitalization, the theoretical and practical significance of the use of artificial intelligence in all sciences, including economic and financial, is increasing. The purpose of the study is to reveal the content of the concept of «artificial intelligence» taking into account the synergy of the basic sciences that characterize it. The study presents the two-part nature of the term «artificial intelligence», identifies the fundamental differences between its characteristics by Russian and foreign authors, identifies the logical relationship between the terms «human intelligence», «intellectual capital», «intellectual activity», identifies its mathematical, informational, economic components, closely interrelated, reveals its content in economics, systematizes and defines the relationship between different approaches to its definition. As a result, on the basis of systematization, comparison of technological, informational, software, technological, futuristic, economic.

The research is devoted to the study of trends and prospects for the development of digital financial management technologies in the business environment. The process of transition from the classical business system to the use of digital resources and the role of financial management in their effective formation is analyzed. The necessity of introducing digital technologies in the field of financial management is substantiated, their advantages are systematized, including a significant reduction in material, labor and financial costs. The problems of financial management development in the context of digital transformation of companies are formulated and recommendations for their solution are developed.

The article analyzes the investment activities of PJSC JSOC Bashneft and formulates the following options for the investment strategy, which differ in the volume and segment orientation of investments: «supporting», «conservative» and «extensive». A forecast of financial indicators and cash flows in the implementation of each of the strategies was made, taking into account three scenarios of changes in the oil price as a key factor affecting the amount of revenue, on the basis of which the cost was estimated for nine combinations of Strategy / Oil price. Comparison of the calculation results showed that the most effective in terms of ensuring the growth of the company’s value is to maintain the existing intensity of investment activities.

This study presents the analysis of structural and infrastructure processes in foreign economic security and the results of changes in the development of the mechanism for ensuring foreign economic security in Russia. The target basis of the study is the hypothesis that changes in certain elements of the economic toolkit in the mechanism for ensuring foreign economic security will lead to an increase in the level of economic security of the country. Presents an analysis of the current indicators (indicators) of the country’s economic security with the conclusion that in the current state of globalization of the world economy, the main aspect of the mechanism for ensuring foreign economic security will be «economic freedom of the economic individual» with certain regulations for his economic behavior as a resident of the Russian Federation.

In the article, the authors consider the psychological determinants of corruption behavior, the main approaches that reveal the content of the concept of «anti-corruption stability» of pedagogical workers, the main structural components of anti-corruption stability. The concept of «anti-corruption stability» of pedagogical workers implies, in the event of alternative solutions, a reliance on the law and lawful behavior. As a result of the study, the most important areas of formation of anti-corruption stability of teachers were identified.

The problems introduced in the article here are the application problems from Mathematics and Engineering Sciences. All presented problems are unabridged and never published problems developed by the author for Pre-Calculus, Calculus and Differential Calculus subjects developed by the author during his teaching years at the colleges in USA. These unabridged problems are developed within the new trends in the evolutions of novelty of the syllabi in Mathematics due to the fast-pacing development of the Mathematics Sciences/ Theory and Applications. These new trends in the Theory and Application of Mathematics Sciences have been added new demands to the newly revised textbooks and corresponding syllabi for the Mathematics Courses taught at the Junior two years Colleges and Universities. There are introduced newly generated unabridged problems with the topics such as (a) Integration by partial fractions, (b) Integration of trigonometric functions and (c) Reduction formulas for the integration. These newly developed problems are reflection of the Development of Mathematical and Engineering Sciences to offer great amount of learning conclusion/sequel to those who pursue a bachelor’s degree at the universities. The problems presented in the article here are developed and restructured in terms of the newly developed techniques to solve the problem in Infinite Mathematics and Engineering sciences. Moreover, the techniques offered in the article here are more likely to get utilized in Advanced Engineering Sciences, too within the problems, which require to obtain finite numerical solutions to the Real Phenomena Natural Problems in Engineering Sciences and Applied Problems in Mathematical Physics.

The relevance of the article is due to the changes taking place in the education system. In our previous studies, we considered the spatial environment: the transition from the academic format of education to the digital one, as a factor influencing the development of the «self» of the future teacher, the development of his managerial qualities, using the scientific foundations of mentoring. In this study, we decided to consider IQ factors (intelligence quotient – eng. «the level of intelligence»), EQ (emotional quotient – eng. «emotional factor») and SQ (spirituelle quotient – eng. «spiritual factor»), influencing the formation of the personality of the head of a preschool educational organization as a mentor. The purpose of the article is to define the concepts of IQ, EQ and SQ as independent units in the scientific foundations of mentoring

The fundamentals of modeling and implementation of technologies for facilitation and support of junior students in a technical university are determined in the process of scientific understanding of the quality of solving development problems and ensuring the proper level of productivity by the priority of choice, the mechanism and perspective of managing the quality of the functionality of modern lifelong education. By defining the components of the process of modeling and implementation of technologies for facilitating and supporting undergraduate students in a technical university in line with the values of humanism and self-organization of the level of success, it is possible to reveal the most expedient solutions to the problems of building and innovatively updating the structure and content of modern professional activities of scientific and pedagogical workers – teachers of a technical university. The paper defines the basic concepts and pedagogical conditions for ensuring the quality of modeling and implementation of facilitation technologies and support for junior students in a technical university. The prospects of innovative construction and correction of processes and ideas of modeling and implementation of technologies of facilitation and support of junior students in a technical university are theorized.

The article is devoted to the problems of digitalization of social education. The authors analyzed the positive and negative effects of digitalization of the activities of social work specialists, its impact on the system of professional training of social sphere personnel. The problems of social education are highlighted and possible ways of solving them using the potential of the digital environment are characterized. The possibilities of the digital environment for all subjects of the educational process are considered, the advantages of digitalization in the training of specialists in social work are specified. An overview of the problems of the formation of the digital environment at the level of an educational organization and measures to overcome them is presented.

This article is devoted to the analysis of the importance of pre-university military training in the system of continuing education of officers for the troops of the National Guard of the Russian Federation. In the context of the study, pre-university training is considered as an activity aimed at preparing applicants for admission and successful training at a military university, motivating them to military service, developing the qualities necessary for a military specialist to perform service and combat tasks at a high professional level. The specifics, goals, tasks and ways of improving the pre-university training of applicants applying for admission and training in military universities of the department are impacted.

In the context of increasing requirements for the effectiveness of teaching in primary school, the problems of purposeful development of cognitive abilities of students using the possibilities of digitalization of school education are becoming highly relevant. The article analyzes the process and results of digitalization of education. The authors consider the course of formation of the digital educational environment and the didactic potential of modern information technologies. The features of the development of cognitive abilities of primary school students in the context of the main aspects of cognitive processes (memory, thinking, attention, imagination) and the advantages and opportunities of the digital educational environment in this area are also highlighted.

The article is devoted to the formation of an open educational space in the higher education system. Presented: the author’s vision of the studied phenomenon in the field of physical culture; a model of building students’ personal educational space in the field of physical culture, which makes it possible to activate their physical activity. The prospects and possibilities of implementing open information education in a modern university are shown, which contribute to the transition from teaching to self-learning, self-education in building an individual trajectory of students’ development in the field of physical culture.