P LANNING OF SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE REGIONS OF THE NORTH-WEST: HISTORICAL CONTEXT

The article presents the history of the development of strategic documents for scientific, technical, and socio-economic development in the St. Petersburg region and the North-West Federal District. The research was conducted by the Institute for Re- gional Economic Studies of Russian Academy of Sciences, which previously was known as the Institute of Socio-Economic Problems of Academy of Sciences of the USSR. The Institute’s focus on large cities and regions allowed it to apply its fundamental knowledge for solving practical problems in the fields of science, technology, and integrated socio-economic development. Examples of im- portant strategic documents developed in the Soviet era include the Comprehensive program of scientific and technical progress and Intensification-90 for Leningrad and the Leningrad region. In the post-Soviet period, the Institute contributed to the development of strategies for socio-economic development of St. Petersburg and the North-West Federal District as well as the concept of scien- tific and technological development of St. Petersburg, the strategy for the “science-education-innovation” complex in the North- West Federal District and the comprehensive scientific and technical program of the North-West Federal District.