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.

In the article is presented evolution of methods of forecasting of social and economic development of region on an example of strategic documents of Sverdlovsk region. The methodical approach to forecasting of social and economic development of the region, based on a dependence establishment between price indexes on the basic production of region, industrial production indexes, incomes of the consolidated budget and a total regional product is proved. Applicability of the this approach on an example of economy of Sverdlovsk region in 2008-2009 is proved. Restrictions of applicability of the this method of forecasting àre presented.