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Authorial determination of cultural landscapes is given in the article. The personal touches are distinguished and their classification is improved, examples are made on Kharkov. During research generalized conception of cultural landscape in home geography. A cultural landscape is marked on the necessity of the legal fixing of concept.

The analysis of the social, economic and environmental indicators for the small cities of Kharkiv region was implemented. Was held the classification of small cities in the region by population, by the share of the population employed in various sectors of economic activity, in terms of the dynamics of socio-economic development, etc. Most of the small cities of Kharkiv region have insufficient pace of development.