There is an opinion that Kurchatov belongs to the group of stagnating cities. Of course, the city could be classified in this category in the 90s, but today the city shows a confident trend towards development.
Over the past 10 years, for example, the volume of the city's own income has increased 3 times from 800.0 million to 2.5 billion tenge. The budget's dependence on city-forming enterprises has decreased from 70% to 48%, which indicates a gradual decrease in mono-dependence.