“…In the current context, management of development of a region is determined by several tools: the concept and the strategy of socio-economic development, the program (scheme) of territorial planning, the federal target programs (FTP) and a set of long-term target programs (LTTP) (Kamilov, 2011). The strategic planning of regional development is entering a new stage, which assumes harmonization and coordination of the federal, regional, inter-regional, and cross-sectoral priorities of development, which would allow forming a mechanism of efficient use of the available resources (Chizhevskaya and Fedorova, 2012). Strategy, as a rule, is a scenario for guidance only and is based on the rationale of a particular direction of the economy development (White et al, 2013).…”