title: Inter-Municipal Interaction in the Process of Metropolitan Agglomeration Development in the Russian Federation
abstract: The development of metropolitan agglomerations is an urgent issue in the Russian Federation because urban clusters depend on inter-municipal cooperation. The authors analyzed the existing models of inter-municipal cooperation to define the most relevant issues of metropolitan development. Since interaction models must comply with the federal legislation, an ideal form of inter-municipal cooperation does not exist. Subjects of the Russian Federation maintain associative, contractual, and economic
journal: Bulletin of Kemerovo State University Series Humanities and Social Sciences