Priorities and Mechanisms of Socio-Economic Development of the Russian Village

The urgent task of the socio-economic development of the country is to overcome the differences in the standard of living of rural and urban populations. The unresolved nature of this task leads to excessive migration of the rural population to the cities. Urbanization in Russia is developing largely spontaneously and is accompanied by a number of adverse socio-economic consequences (reduction of the share of the rural population while reducing its number, social desertification of rural areas, withdrawal of productive lands from economic turnover, etc.). The author suggests a number of measures to overcome these negative processes: improvement of state regulation of integrated rural development; diversification of the rural economy; priority development of small and rural businesses.