The collective monograph reflects the most important results of the first stage of fundamental scientific research carried out at the Faculty of Economics of St. Petersburg State University in the Department of Management and Planning of Socio-Economic Processes in 2011–2012 (state registration number 01201259001). It is devoted to the fundamental problems of the formation and development of a strategic management system at the federal and regional levels. For a wide range of researchers, scientists, specialists in the field of state and regional management, teachers, graduate students and university students, as well as experts and practitioners involved in the development of the most important strategic directions at various levels of the territorial management system. The book was prepared by a team of authors under the scientific supervision of the Honored Worker of Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Management and Planning of Social and Economic Processes of the Faculty of Economics of St. Petersburg State University Yu. V. Kuznetsov.< /p>