Аннотация
The purpose of the study is to make assessment and diagnosis of program documents existed in small towns (by the territory and industry parameters) – monotowns in Russian Federation and Republic of Kazakhstan in the context of improving economic instruments, to ensure their effective functioning. The empirical basis for the analysis were the results of studies conducted as a research and development “Research of features of an integrated socio-economic development of single-industry towns of border areas in the functioning of the single economic space of Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus”, carried out by grant funding of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The study is based on the use of methods and techniques of logical, systematic, structural and functional, and comparative analysis.