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The Middle class of society performs many useful and significant functions in the development of any state. To conduct a balanced socio-economic policy, the state needs to know the social structure of society, including the share of the middle class in the total population, as well as the dynamics of its development. To this end, the paper substantiates the author's criteria for distinguishing the middle class among employees by level of education and professional status. The size of the middle class in Russia is determined for each of the above criteria separately and in their entirety. A comparative analysis of the results obtained is presented, based on which, at the end of the work, directions for increasing the middle class in the country are proposed.

The article examines the possible use of the potential of the middle class as factor of realization of strategy of socio-economic development of Vologda oblast for the period up to 2030. The authors found that the potential of the middle class has many useful characteristics, which makes it one of the most important factors in the development of the territory. For the convenience of analyzing the characteristics of the middle class, their classification by spheres of social life is proposed: economic, spiritual, social and political. The author shows how using the characteristics of the potential of the middle class in each sphere of public life and implementing a strategy for their development, it is possible to achieve the indicators of the strategy of socio-economic development of the Vologda region for the period up to 2030, and its main goal-people saving.