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Introduction. There are two basic dimensions in which any education system is found: individual and social. The former one is aimed at realizing a person’s subjective abilities and interests, as well as their professional preferences. The latter considers a person primarily as a labor unit. The article focuses on analysis of the dialectical relationship between education systems functioning, the development of modern domestic economy and ways to increase effectiveness of this interaction. The methodology was based on a comparative historical method that takes into account functioning of the Soviet Education System, as well as the world’s dominant educational and economic development. The methods of analogy and interpretation allowed us to put forward a hypothesis about the mechanism of mutual influence of the education system and the strategic vector of national economy development. Discussion. The Russian economy diversification is the only key to its development. The modern economic system cannot be competitive while the raw materials production prevails over production of final products. This is not only a matter of economic efficiency, but also of national sovereignty. An attempt to adopt any technological patterns from other countries and build a model of a national economy according to appropriate algorithms inevitably leads to the path of catch-up modernization, which, despite numerous attempts in the XX-XXI centuries, in fact, never achieved its goals. A more promising path is development of a creative economy, which is based on the predominance of innovative, creative ideas that have received their commercial formalization. It is the sphere of creative economy that is currently represented by all the leading world-class companies. The creative economy development could be facilitated by an education system based not on the principles of narrow specialization, but on the contrary, on broad, fundamental knowledge that would allow a subject to promptly respond to market conditions and to meet individual needs. Conclusion. The prospects of the Russian diversified economy are quite clearly linked to the state and strategic vector of the Russian education development. The creative economy development is an opportunity to avoid “catch-up modernization” and form a socio-economic sphere that meets the modern society requirements.