Theater industry in the context of asymmetric development of russian regions

Abstract

The collection of indicators that characterize the current state and dynamics of the functioning of cultural institutions over the past two years 2018-2020 and a quantitative analysis of the functioning of the Russian cultural industry in modern conditions have shown that the bulk of revenues to the cultural sphere from all sources of funding in 2016-19 consist of overwhelming funding for theaters, museums, and libraries. The regional aspect of theater activity in 2019 reveals the dominance of the Central Federal district in terms of the number of theaters. This indicator is followed by the Volga Federal district. and the Siberian Federal district, which also reveals the existing potential. As can be seen from the presented statistics, there is no correlation between the number of theaters and the attendance of virtual concert halls of theaters in more than one subject of the Russian Federation. In terms of the number of events in virtual concert halls, the correlation is observed only for the Central Federal district. A direct correlation is revealed for the Central Federal district by the amount of funding and the number of events in virtual concert halls, and by the number of tours outside of their region of the Russian Federation and abroad. Quantitative analysis of theater activities has shown the potential of virtual information activities and the existing need for digitalization of the cultural industry in specific regions of the Russian Federation. In some subjects of the Russian Federation, a correlation was found for specific indicators of the cultural industry, but in certain subjects this correlation was not found.