The article deals with a rather topical issue for most countries of the modern world, namely the presence in the administrative-territorial division of units endowed with a special status. The author attempts to analyze the key features of the political-right and economic properties that influence the formation of autonomous entities within states.

The author also demonstrates the weaknesses and counter-currents contained in the main normative legal documents of the international level.

At the same time, the article comprehends the dialectical essence of autonomous entities, so on the one hand, autonomies lead to asymmetry, but on the other hand they help to prevent or weaken centrifugal tendencies. According to the author, the effectiveness of autonomy as a political technology increases in conditions of stable and entrenched practices.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the priority directions of space transport development outlined in the addresses of the President of the Russian Federation to the Federal Assembly, as well as in the most important speeches of the head of state at specialized meetings. Special attention is paid to space activities at the highest governmental level, as well as understanding of the need to increase the potential of cosmic transport to implement the tasks of domestic and foreign policy facing modern Russia.

The article, based on the analysis of general and brunch strategic planning documents, as well as relevant regulatory legal acts, reveals the priorities of housing policy and urban development in modern Russia. Special attention paid at the highest power level to this sphere of state activity, including the search for effective mechanisms for the implementation of priorities defined in it in the course of practical policy implementation, is emphasized.

The relevance of this topic is due to the presence of theoretical and practical problems in the field of transport security. Due to the fact that transport is one of the most important elements of the infrastructure of any modern state, it still does not lose its attractiveness for committing terrorist acts and other acts of unlawful interference. Accordingly, the improvement of forms and methods of management in the transport industry remains one of the most important tasks in the field of public administration. Concluding that transport security is an integral part of the national security of the country, it is worth noting that the achievement of the established goals of public administration in the field of transport security a priori implies the achievement of goals in the national security system.

The article considers social modeling as a method of studying Russian regions in order to identify inequalities in their socio-economic, socio-political, socio-cultural development processes. The purpose of the study is to analyze theoretical and methodological approaches to the social modeling of regional inequalities with access to the development of territorial strategies and political and managerial practices, to reduce interregional inequalities in socio-economic and socio-cultural spheres. The disproportions in the socio-economic and socio-cultural development of the regions, the level and quality of life of the population, the devastation of large areas of the country due to the concentration of fixed capital in several large centers are shown. Some theoretical and methodological approaches of Russian scientists to the social modeling of political and managerial practices at the federal and regional levels, types (models) of local self-government, where there is a great potential of the human factor, are considered. The new conditions of the existence of Russian culture, requiring special cultural security and the presence of institutional regulation, are emphasized.

In the article, the authors consider creativity as the primary source of innovative activity, and the creative personality as the carrier of this social phenomenon. Here the authors reveal the features of a creative personality in the space of everyday life and defines its main characteristic – creativity, which participates in the formation of its semantic comfortable space. In addition, the authors emphasize that the creative activity of such a person in everyday practices occupies the main place in the hierarchical model of human needs. At the same time, the authors draw attention to the fact that a creative person is not able to participate in the entire cycle of creating innovations that are necessary for the innovative development of the territory, due to the inconsistency of his cognitive characteristics.

The article describes the objective factors that influence the social infantilism of urban youth, such as the transformation of the family institution, the role of the media that promote the cult of youth and the values of consumption; a changed system of values: the loss of previously existing spiritual guidelines and moral foundations; a long period of study, which delays the moment of entry into a full-fledged employment relationship; influence of virtual reality.

The article is devoted to the problems of harmonizing the interests of social groups in the Russian Federation in the context of increasing social risks. In the modern world, social work has long been a necessary part of the life of a developed society. However, performing important functions in the life of society, increasing the degree of its integration, social work requires a number of conditions for its effectiveness, in particular, the availability of certain resources and feedback between the institution of social work and groups interested in it. Unfortunately, the problem of maintaining feedback is complicated by the fact that most of the groups of recipients of social work and social assistance are on the sidelines of public attention, are initially subject to social deprivation, and experience serious resource problems. In the course of social upheavals, the likelihood for these groups to defend or at least declare their interests is sharply reduced. Russia has entered a difficult stage of economic restructuring and social transformation. This can lead to ignoring the problems of a whole range of social groups. In order to prevent such a development of events, humanity has developed various methods for mitigating the crisis situations of society: management by coefficients, e-government, social entrepreneurship. But they are all far from perfect. The specificity of the social structure of Russian society, in which most of the population is experiencing a shortage of resources and in which zones of self-perpetuating poverty have formed, also makes the problem more acute.

The article proposes a strategy for modernizing the national segment of the digital social space of «digital architectonics» - a dynamic system of interaction between the most important spheres of life. The tools of the system of social deterrence that ensure sustainable digital development are identified, and the main directions of modernization are determined.

This article deals with the impact of the human factor on the operation of the railway complex in Russia. Particular attention is paid to the aspect of complex safety and its provision taking into account various features of the industry's employees. Specific examples of accidents which have recently occurred on the railway are given as a proof of a considerable influence of the human factor on emergencies occurrence.

The human factor types that influence train traffic safety are defined, among which unintentional actions are highlighted. The peculiarities of the human factor, when analysing and preventing which there is an opportunity to minimize and level out occupational risks, are disclosed. Such peculiarities include abilities and predisposition of railway employees to various activities, their training and psychophysiological peculiarities which influence the work quality.

The measures recommended to reduce the impact of the human factor on the functioning of the railway complex are presented. The necessity of railway employees' work on increase of self-regulation, which will contribute to decrease of possibility of serious blunders and prevention of emergency situations, is given. The provision of measures to minimize the risks associated with the human factor in the functioning railway companies is considered.

Values form the most important dimension of being and life priorities of an individual and society as a whole. When the values materialize in some kind of power, which is built over us as an external, transpersonal entity, we need a critical attitude to this situation. The subject of communication has a huge power in the hands of shaping the picture of the world in other people, a direct opportunity to influence the value-demand characteristics of the audience. And knowledge of the specifics of communication techniques of influence is needed today more than ever.

Physical culture and sports activities for many people with disabilities are an urgent vital necessity due to the state of health. The article considers the factors of motivation of people with disabilities to exercise, as well as barriers that prevent them from doing physical education and sports. The article is based on the results of a sociological study conducted by sociologists of the Russian State Social University in May-June 2022, aimed at determining the motives of people with disabilities to physical culture and sports activities and identifying obstacles that reduce their motor activity. The study was conducted using a set of sociological methods, one of which is the online questionnaire method, the second is the focus group interview method. The sociological results obtained in the course of the study allowed us to conclude that the main motive of people with disabilities for systematic physical education and sports is the desire to restore and strengthen their health. For people with disabilities, physical education and sports, on the one hand, are activities that they like to do, from which they enjoy. On the other hand, it is a vital necessity and sometimes hard, exhausting work that you have to force yourself to do. At the same time, Russian society stigmatizes people with disabilities as unable to engage in physical culture and sports, which does not contribute to increasing their motivation for physical culture and sports activity. In addition, the involvement of people with disabilities in physical education and sports activities is hindered by infrastructural problems: in a number of physical education and sports organizations, in urban spaces and adjacent sports grounds, the needs of people with disabilities are not taken into account, these organizations do not have the equipment necessary for people with disabilities, as well as personnel capable of providing them with the necessary assistance. The article also provides statistical data on the involvement of people with disabilities in physical education and sports.

The article is dedicated to the comparative analysis of models of the mechanism of public transport policy implementation in the prerevolutionary, Soviet and modern periods of the history of Russia. Statism, centralization of management, public control over transport infrastructure and the sphere of transportation are common characteristic of all the models compared. The pre-revolutionary model contributed to the economic and political formation of Russia, however, it did not provide cardinal changes in the expansion of the country's transport system and the introduction of advanced achievements of science and technology into it. These shortcomings were successfully eliminated by the Soviet model, but it was based on administrative-command and directive-planning methods of industry management, refusal to rely on private busyness initiative and investment for infrastructure development, paternalism in relation to the transport needs of society. The advantages of the modern model of transport public administration of the Russian Federation include the planned and verified nature of its functioning, aimed at advancing the construction of transport infrastructure in relation to the pace of economic development of the country and the economic development of its new hard-to-reach areas. However, the pace of commissioning of transport infrastructure facilities chosen by the current leadership of Russia creates a largely constraining effect in relation to the national economy, which negatively affects the development of most regions and social stability in this country. The way out of this contradiction could be to accelerate the development of transport infrastructure through the joint efforts of the government, business, science and a broad volunteer movement.