ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the results of the classification of Russian regions according to the set of indices of measurement of social development and identified six cluster groups, with each group defining the necessary tools for strategic planning. The challenges in the implementation of national projects and the ways of their elimination methods of network planning are identified. The goal of socially oriented economy is social development that requires accelerated development of social services (education, health) and branches providing comfortable living conditions (agriculture, housing management, and construction). To classify Russian regions by types of social development taking into account differences in the social development index, its change rate, as well as the balance coefficient, and allocating groups of "related" regions, which need the same programs of regional socially oriented development, results of cluster analysis were used. Social development index in the regions was determined as the average of social development indices measurements.
