The authors of the article propose to consider ways of forming a tourist zone based on urban planning approaches, using the example of the territory along Lake Ladoga (Leningrad Region and the Republic of Karelia). The article shows the main ways to form a tourist zone using three main approaches: a cluster approach, a polycentric approach and a landscape approach.

Keywords: Lake Ladoga, formation of a tourist zone, natural and planning frameworks, tourist and recreational zone

The presented article analyzes the urban development of the cities of the Leningrad region of Luga, Kingisepp and Tikhvin, which have the potential to be included in the list of historical cities of regional significance, to identify the features of their urban development through various historical eras, as well as the existing problems of the urban environment.

Keywords: historical settlements, urban planning reform of Catherine II, Leningrad region, urban planning formation of cities

The article analyzes the urban planning documents of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation, establishing the boundaries of the planned tourist and recreational zones of regional significance on the territory. The author gives proposals for the creation and development of planning frameworks for the region: ecological, tourist-recreational and natural water, contributing to the balanced socio-economic development of the territory of the Leningrad region. The classification of recreation and tourism objects for a particular region is formulated, as a basis for the formation of tourist and recreational zones of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation.

Keywords: Planning framework, ecological framework, tourist and recreational framework, natural water framework, forest park green belt, specially protected natural area, tourist and recreational zone, objects of recreation and tourism