The Magadan region is one of the regions of the Far North with limited opportunities for residential development. In this regard, a small resident population lives in the region, concentrated mainly in the administrative center and near «Kolyma» highway while the most of the territory has no settlements and lacks infrastructure.
At the same time, Magadan is an entry point - a transport hub for organizing the economic development of the region, and the concentration of the population in the administrative center creates conditions for its development as a service center of the region, the center of the urban economy, with a high share of small and medium-sized businesses and the non-state sector of social services, in including in the field of leisure and health care both for residents of the region and for shift workers, and in the future for tourists (with the development of this potential).
