Yamal's development: the choice of new stage strategical priorities

The article examines the processes of re-orientation of social and economic system of the Yamal region from the strategy of «developing» to the strategy of «ha-bitation». The current expansion of hydrocarbons extraction areas and development of new directions of mineral resources exploitation, increased attention to traditional craft and trading sector considerably complicate the Yamal region socio-economic structure. This fact makes immeasurably greater demands on administrative practices taking account of brand new conditions of external economic, communication and humanitarian «openness» of the region.