Social and economic development, geopolitical position and role of Russia in the world community at present time and in the long term are mainly determined by its mineral-raw potential and by the state strategy of its development and use at federal and regional levels. Potential value of balance stocks of minerals of Russia allows to consider a mineral-raw complex as the resource foundation of the state, forming base conditions for realization of structural reforming and modernization of economy, providing the accelerated growth of Gross Domestic Product and increase of well-being of the population. At the same time prevailing export raw orientation at absence of mechanisms of influence over world and the regional markets aggravates dangerous dependence of economy of raw regions and the country as a whole from an external conjuncture, weakens an opportunity of complex development of own hi-tech processing manufactures and at sudden decrease of the world prices results in large scale negative social consequences in the regions of Russia and to a deep crisis simultaneously in all technologically connected branches: geological prospecting, extraction, processing, mechanical engineering, construction, transport, power engineering to what the modern crisis situation testifies