Professor Chernova Olga Anatolyevna, Southern Federal University, Department of Information Economics, Russia. Professor Chernova Olga Anatolyevna is a Doctor of Economics and has 35 years of work experience. Their research areas include the following: problems of balanced socio-economic development of the regional economy, modernization and innovation-oriented development of peripheral territories, implementation of a policy of rational import substitution, regional resilience, and sustainable development, scientometrics, sustainability of regional development, and regional resistance.