Long term forecasting of Russian resources exploitation territories development

Large amount of output of Russian mineral resources industry is not accompanied by the economic growth of territories containing the mineral resources. One of the reasons is a nonuniform development of various industries and the prevalence of mineral industries. Sustainable development of the regions needs the long-term strategy that provides the economic growth. Various factors affect the regional economy by different ways in short term and in long-term prospects. In this paper, the model of long term strategy development evaluation is suggested.