Rural territories act as a special, priority object of management, as well as a comprehensive subject of scientific research. Due to large territorial differences, interregional differentiation in Russia does not always reflect the diversity of rural areas, and intraregional differences can often be more significant than differences between the country's subjects. In this regard, the article describes the methodology of intraregional zoning of rural municipalities according to indicators of socio-economic development, based on the use of cluster analysis and tested on the example of the Penza region. The results made it possible to formulate proposals for the development of sustainable rural development programmes at the regional level.
sel'skie municipal'nye obrazovaniya, metodika ocenki, vnutriregional'naya differenciaciya, social'no-ekonomicheskie pokazateli, klasternyy analiz, upravlencheskie resheniya