ABSTRACT
Current trends of protection and use of monuments of history and culture testify to the increasing attention to studying of historical and cultural heritage. The special attention is drawn by the idea of formation of protected historical and cultural territories which can become the historical cities, farmstead and monastic complexes, fields of historical battles, historical ways and roads, historical production territories and so forth. Such territories are already created in shape either memorial estates, or other spatial formations, including even specific administrative and territorial units. In some cases their activity is capable to define future economic specialization of the region, prospect of its social and economic development. The historical and cultural heritage is gradually realized as a specific resource of the territory, acts as the new active phenomenon of economic life.
