Digitalization as a Tool to Achieve the Priorities for the Regional Strategic Development

the article, devoted to the study of digitalization as a tool to achieve the priorities of the regional strategic development. The challenges, objectives, and priority development areas of the Russian Federation are systematized. The theoretical, practical and legislative aspects of strategic planning are provided. The opportunities and ways of developing digitalization processes in Sverdlovsk Region and Yekaterinburg from a strategic perspective have been studied. The methodological basis of the study is based on the theoretical concepts of the strategic management, regional and spatial economics. The approaches of the Russian and foreign scientists to strategies, analysis of the processes of digitalization development in Sverdlovsk Region and Yekaterinburg are disclosed by using a combination of methods: logical, dialectical, cause-and-effect, calculating the values of statistical indicators, etc. The opinion is formed about the need to develop digitalization for the purpose of improving the level and quality of life of the population of the Russian Federation and the regions thereof. The article may be useful to university students, graduate students, research scientists, specialists involved in the development (updating) of the strategies of social and economic development of territories, state and municipal employees, as well as other interested persons.