The article is devoted to the improvement of zonal sugar specialization of the regions. The authors of the article consider the territorial specialization of regional clusters on the distribution of sugar production in the natural and economic space of Russia; analyze the state and trends of beet development, the level of territorial specialization and the parameters of the placement of production of the territorial production of sugar complex; study the regional specialization of sugar agglomerations on the structure of sugar beet crops; estimate the perspective results of territorial and branch shifts on the basis of proportionallybalanced placement of productions of territorial-industrial sugar complex of Stavropol region.