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This scientific article reveals the issues of the emergence of state agricultural companies in the Russian Federation, their evolution and current state. Today, state agro-industrial complexes in the regions have a different structure, types of activities, as well as operating conditions. The paper analyzes the current state of state agro-industrial complexes and proposes measures for the further development of state agricultural companies.

Despite wide prevalence of the companies with state participation in Russia they do not often become the subject of scientific researches. There are about 1100 companies with Russian Federation as the official shareholder and more than 2000 companies with Russian regions participation. This study is one of few studies on the issues of management for industrial companies with state participation. There are the following mane trends in the study area: active policy of reduction of state participation in the economy through the privatization; transferring companies to state corporations like state corporations "Rostec" and "Roskosmos"; growing differences in management for industrial companies with state and private participation. 1. Introduction Russia historically has a large public sector. Despite the nearly 30 years of privatization, country remains a fairly large number of state-owned companies or companies with state participation [1, 2] in different industries [3, 4]. Wide prevalence of the companies with state participation does not often lead them to become the subject of analysis of Russian [5] and foreign [6] scientists. There is rather small number of researches directly dedicated to issues of managing state-owned companies, including industrial companies. More often there are studies devoted to different aspects of management for companies in general [7-21] or state public administration [16-20]. That's why one of the main tasks of this study is to eliminate mentioned research gap. The other is to identify modern management trends for industrial companies with state participation in Russia. Another one is to give a forecast of evolution directions of the trends. The methodological basis of the study consisted of general scientific methods, among which should be highlighted: analysis, synthesis, comparison, induction, deduction, grouping, generalization, analogy. The author also applied structural-functional, systemic, modeling and other methods. Under companies with state participation the author meant joint stock companies (JSC) or limited liability companies whose shareholder (participant) is the Russian Federation and / or subject of the federation (Russian regions) regardless of the number of shares and the size of shares. Currently the Russian Federation is the official shareholder (participant) of about 1100 companies and Russian regions are owners of more than 2000 companies. A large proportion is accounted for industrial JSC. Among them PJSC Gazprom, PJSC NK Rosneft, PJSC "United Aircraft Corporation", JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation, etc.

Modern Russian economy has many problems. In last decades country lost a significant part of its economic potential. Nowadays Russia has only a few strong sectors. One of them is agriculture. This sector consists of companies with state and private participation. Most of Russian agricultural companies are private. In some parts of the country and in certain sectors state companies dominate. The biggest agricultural companies with the participation of the Russian Federation are JSC “Head center for reproduction of agricultural animals”, JSC “United grain company”, JSC “Foreign economic corporation “Prodintorg”, JSC “Russian hippodromes”, JSC “Rosagroleasing”. Almost every Russian region has not less then one agricultural company with regional participation. The legal status of state agricultural companies is similar from region to region. Some Russian regions may have there own features.