The article outlines the methodological foundations for the creation and development of the closed energy complex of the Kuril Islands in the Sakhalin Region based on the use of local types of renewable energy sources (RES). An estimate of the expected economic effect from the use of renewable energy is given.

The article correlation-regression models of the number of labor resources and people employed in the economy were built, depending on the average wage by type of activity and the working-age population not engaged in the economy. The assessment of the significance of models by coefficients of variation, correlation, Student’s t-criterion, Fisher’s F-criterion is carried out. The resulting regression models can be applied in practice when forecasting the number of labor resources and people employed in the economy. The contribution of the considered factors to the variation in the number of labor resources, including the population employed in the economy, is determined. It has been established that wages at the meso-level of the national economy are a tool for regulating the labor market and the employment of labor force by types of economic activity.

In the scientific article the author’s position concerning formation regional industrial association with the base research centre of leading high schools is presented an example of Republic Tatarstan. Classification numbers of sources of design financing with a substantiation of economic feasibility of the project are revealed.

The article shows the economic essence of the program of housing renovation in Moscow, its harm for the country, Moscow and Muscovites, as well as its attractiveness for developers. The author considers defects of the property right to the earth and their influence on real estate cost. It is put questions of restriction of number of storeys of the housing estate and the termination of construction of housing in Moscow, the removal from its composition of the territories being outside the Moscow ring Road, as well as the termination of the processes of deindustrialization of the capital and the development of industrial production. Need of the balanced development of all territory of the Russian Federation, development of Siberia and the Far East, development of the industry and agriculture is emphasized.