Currently, the problem of fiscal insolvency is relevant for the majority of municipalities of the Russian Federation, whose poor condition is indicated by the low share of own revenues and significant amounts of debt obligations of municipal budgets. On the basis of the analysis of the legal and regulatory framework, the work of specialists skilled in the art, as well as the author’s personal research on the practice of applying temporary financial administration, the most significant causes of this state are highlighted: the insufficiency of municipal financial resources to ensure their expenditure powers; low efficiency of financial management in the municipal budgetary sector; the existence of gaps in the actual institutional environment. The assessment of the foreign experience of the crisis management of municipalities was carried out to identify tools and methods that can be used in the Russian context. Special attention is paid to the mechanism of municipal bankruptcy. As a result, preventive measures have been identified as the most promising tools for resolving the problem of insolvency of municipalities of the Russian Federation. These measures include limiting the volume of short-term borrowings of municipalities and the need to obtain permission from higher authorities to borrow. A number of proposals to improve the effectiveness of temporary financial administration the solvency of municipalities was also offered.

In the context of fierce competition, oversupply and constantly declining demand the industrial policy automotive engineering enterprises require better coordination with the trade policy. Consequently, there is an urgent need for the formation of the system of harmonization of industrial and trade policies, that it gets the requirements of consumers, on the one hand, and the development of an effective strategy for promoting goods on the market, on the other. The article discusses a point of view on the subject of coordination of the industrial and trade policies in the context of harmonization, describes the essence and the content of harmonization based on tiered organization of the national economy and positioning the industry of automobile engineering, summarizes the main conditions that accompany the process of harmonization of the industrial and trade policies, defined the main areas of harmonization of the sectoral policies, which have been the basis for the formation mechanism balanced trade and industrial policies of enterprises.

The article examines and summarizes the various approaches to the interpretation of innovation. The necessity of consideration of region as a specific space for innovation of any nature. The author formed and presented an innovative system of economic management at the regional level, proposed author’s interpretation of the innovative development of the region.

In the article the analysis of the market of land plots with encumbrances is considered as an indicator of land availability for consumers. The main segments of the land market are identified and the types of land availability for consumers are determined. The legal analysis of types of encumbrances of land plots is given. The results of the analysis of the land market in the Penza region for 2016‑2017, showing the high cost availability of land for consumers.