THE ECONOMIC POTENTIAL OF THE VOLGOGRAD REGION AS A FACTOR OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Rizhenkov Anatoliy Yakovlevich, Dr of law, professor. <...> Annotation: The main tasks of an author when writing this work are: the need to systematize the knowledge of the methods of analysis of investment attractiveness of Volgograd region and the allocation of the most promising areas for its development. <...> The work was carried out on the basis of a systematic method in the field of economic and legal regulation of business activity in the Volgograd region. <...> Работа была проведена на основе системного метода в сфере экономического и правового регулирования предпринимательской деятельности в Волгоградской области! <...>