Data characterizing the volume of the digital twin market are provided. Gartner materials illustrate the high significance and promising development of digital twin technologies. The dynamics of publication activity of Russian and foreign authors on the development and implementation of digital twins is traced, and the thematic distribution of publications presented in the RSCI and ScienceDirect database is shown. Indicators of publication activity of universities and organizations of the Russian Academy of Sciences are presented. It is argued that the variety of tasks solved in the field of urban management creates the prerequisites for the use of digital twins in various application areas, which contributes to positive changes in the development of territories. The scientific potential for the development of urban management as an integral area of using digital twins was illustrated using a representative set of examples of domestic and foreign publications.
