Abstract
The revival of single-industry towns is one of the priority tasks for the development of any country. The goal is to study the theoretical aspects of the concept and criteria for recognizing single-industry towns for the development of conceptual ideas about single-industry towns and the achievement of the 11th UN Sustainable Development Goal - sustainable cities and towns. In the course of the study, when studying the concept of a single-industry town, a retrospective analysis was used and the method of system-bibliometric network analysis was applied, which allows to make a comprehensive analysis of scientific literature and determine the main theoretical foundations and identify gaps in the study of the revival of single-industry towns. Results of the study: the conceptual apparatus of the term “single-industry town” was analyzed on the basis of a retrospective analysis of the definitions of this concept, the author's approach to the concept of a single-industry town was proposed to achieve the goal of sustainable development, the criteria for identifying single-industry towns based on existing approaches were supplemented. The proposed recommendations will allow employees of akimats and ministries to develop effective plans and forecasts for the development of single-industry towns.