Methodological issues of regional administration

The paper reviews basic stages in shaping the regional administration school of Siberian researchers who studies issues of regional economic self-sufficiency, regional pre-planning, a programming approach to regional economic policies, complex planning in regions, building regional markets and competitive positions of regions. The author proposes major ways of how to build a system of regional administration allowing for the present-day conditions when many different regional economic units operate in market and may have economic conflicts, the relationship between governmental and market structures, and a system of forecasting and planning for regional development.