Main directions of national social policy and its implementation in Krasnodar region in the 1980's

There is a comprehensive study of social policy in regions of Russia in the article by the example of Krasnodar Region. The author notes the importance of such social functions of the state as social expenditures and social welfare. The article is considered the level of working people's incomes, development of consumer services, trade, and provision of the population with housing and construction of socio-cultural facilities. On the actual material, for the first time the author shows how the issues of national social policy in Krasnodar Region were solved in the 1980s. We can see that in the USSR much was done to help the family in its hard work. A system of measures was created, which included caring for motherhood, protecting women's labor and health, and facilitating household and everyday life. The article shows the growth of incomes of working people, the development of consumer services, trade, and provision of housing and sociocultural objects for the population. The author notes that the important directions of social policy were consumer services for the population. The article shows that the service life in the 1980s.was developed in two directions. The first is the providing of accessibility and complexity in servicing the population through the Households of Household Services and a network of integrated reception points. The second is the specialization and concentration of production of services, their industrialization, particularly for tailoring, footwear sewing, furniture manufacturing, photo services, laundry, and dry cleaning. The article analyzes in detail the state of trade and housing construction on Kuban. The achievements and problems in the development of these sectors are noted. The study examined the direct relationship between the decrease in the level of economic development of the state and the slowdown in social development that occurred in the end of 1980s, and as a result - a decline in social indicators of the standard of people's living. The author concludes that the transition to a market economy had destroyed the foundations of the Soviet social security system, strengthening the economic difficulties traditionally experienced by the population of the country.