The problem of leveling of the economic development of territories has become more important on the inter-regional level as well as in the region, in Sverdlovsk Oblast, in particular. The article considers the following procedures of evaluation of municipalities’ development that are used in the Sverdlovsk Oblast: the procedure of rating evaluation of municipalities concerning their level of economic potential and dynamics of development; the procedure of evaluation of municipalities’ competitive capacity and the procedure of evaluation of the level of life of the population which the Oblast is trying to use at present. Besides, the article discusses in details instruments used in leveling of municipalities’ development while performing the reform of local government in the Russian Federation.

Effective management of social-economic development of the region is impossible without well-organized system of monitoring of its territories at present time. The problem of choice of optimal monitoring instruments is getting the more actual. Assessment of competitive potential of municipal organizations in Sverdlovsk Oblast and its influence on social and economic policy of the territories is considered in the article on the basis of results of social-economic development in 2005.