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Studying the history of Russia’s regions clearly puts on the agenda the issue of methodological approaches to the studying the post-Soviet period covering about three decades. The latest period of Russian history in its regional refraction is of particular relevance in terms of finding those starting points that would serve as a kind of guideline for historians in covering social and economic issues. The article investigates the history of elaborating strategic projects of the socio-economic development’s main directions for Siberian region carried out by the scientists from the Institute of Economics and Organization of Industrial Production (IEOIP) of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since the early 1960s, the Institute staff has determined vectors of the main trends in the Siberian economy’s development in accordance with the state policy directions and regional needs. In the 1970-1980s they formulated strategic directions of the regional socio-economic development being implemented in the framework of the program “Siberia”. The post-Soviet period required new approaches to restore the regional economic potential and understand the role of Siberia in the state geopolitical strategy. These approaches are reflected in three documents: Strategies of Siberia’s Socio-Economic Development in 2002, 2005, and 2010. Experience in implementing socio-economic projects in the second half of the ХХ century was summarized, first of all, in the works by economists themselves. Some issues of the Institute’s development were reflected in the works of Siberian historians. Works by A.G. Granberg, V.V. Kuleshov, V.E. Seliverstov and other describe the experience of elaborating strategic programs for Siberia’s socio-economic development in the XXI century. However, a comprehensive analysis of the IEOIP’s activities to elaborate socio-economic programs and development strategies for Siberia has not yet become the subject of a special historiographic analysis. Therefore, the article obgective is to study IEOIP’s team activities in elaborating main directions of Siberia’s socio-economic development in the late XX - early XXI centuries; identify the strategies main priorities for Siberia’s socio-economic development in 2002, 2005 and 2010 that received (in addition to the Strategy 2005 ) the status of program documents officially approved by the Government of the Russian Federation Government.