Bringing of the cultural heritage objects into the economic turnover. An experience and issues

The article is devoted to the issues of involving the cultural heritage sites into the economic turnover of cities and territories. It consideres the approaches to the definition of the “object of cultural heritage†and gives the used wording. In international practice, there are several mechanisms that are used for the restoration and subsequent operation of such facilities in the infrastructure of the urban and rural settlements. All of those mechanisms have their own advantages, disadvantages and limitations of the application. The authors analyze the accumulated foreign experience and propose mechanisms of interaction between the state and business on the issues of restoration of the cultural heritage objects and commercial use of restored objects for their integration into the tourist and economic infrastructure of the region.