摘要：A systematic approach to the analysis of sustainable development of a coal-mining region, substantiated in the light of the growing and intensifying problems of an ecological, technological, social nature, determined by the specifics of territorial functioning, which causes a high susceptibility of the regional economy to external challenges, the main of which is currently high volatility of coal export prices, is presented in the article. In the conditions of the existing excessive orientation of the development of coal-mining regions towards the influence of the economic factor based on the principle of extracting maximum benefits, which, among other things, have historical prerequisites, there is a need to revise the theoretical concepts of sustainable development of territories from the point of view of a systematic approach that substantiates interconnection of many more components of sustainable development of regional economies. Thus, it is advisable to present the analysis of sustainable development of a coal mining region through the interaction of five interdependent components: culture and education component, social well-being component, science and innovation component, environment component and economic efficiency component.
