The author been guided by analytical data on the drugs market, the level of development of domestic pharmaceutical industry and a share of the Russian market occupied with it, justifies the need for creation of the pharmaceutical cluster in the Sverdlovsk region, as a mechanism of accessibility maintenance of vital and essential medicines for population and a source of economic growth in the region.

This paper substantiates the necessity of cluster organization of the pharmaceutical industry in the region. The estimation of the state and prospects of development of such structures in the domestic economy is given. Sverdlovsk region was chosen as the object of study on the possibility of forming a pharmaceutical cluster. Objective prerequisites for the organization of a cluster of pharmaceutical production in Sverdlovsk region are considered, among these were distinguished: capacious and fast-growing market for pharmaceutical products, availability of potential development of the pharmaceutical industry in the territory and the key success factors for enterprises - potential participants of the cluster. Indicated key success factors are: presence of a creative team and close interaction between business and government, high level of cooperation among the enterprises of the cluster and commercialization of products, implementation of research and development expenditures etc. Thus, it was substantiated that in there all references and resources for the formation of a pharmaceutical cluster. The concept of formation and development of the Ural pharmaceutical cluster was elaborated. Inside the concept, the goals, objectives, processing, product and organizational priorities for cluster formation are identified. Architecture of this structure with a justification of its members and certain forms of interaction between them is proposed. The stages of formation and development of the Ural pharmaceutical cluster on the basis of a ten-year settlement period for the full range of activities for this project are substantiated. At each stage, a set of key objectives and results of the cluster was defined. The choice of phases was carried out on the basis of investment programs of cluster's enterprises strategic position on the mastering of markets and infrastructure development. An assessment of socio-economic efficiency of the Ural pharmaceutical cluster is made; it's impact on economic development of areas the of cluster participants location is estimated. Areas of the state and community support for clustered forms of business organization are designated. A complex of proposed actions was designed to meet the life cycle of a cluster. This positive experience of the formation and development of cluster structure in Sverdlovsk region can be implemented in other regions of Russia.

In the article on the basis of the carried-out categorical analysis distinctive features, the contents, participants, the directions and methods of realization of cluster policy are marked out. It is shown that potentially high efficiency the cluster policy formed on the basis of the program and design approach possesses. Such approach allows to make active available internal reserves of self-development of a cluster, and also to attract and complementary to use resources of the territory of its dislocation. World and domestic experience of formation and realization of cluster initiatives is analyzed. Types of cluster policy that expands ideas of scales, intensity, target orientation, a state role, measures and mechanisms of realization of cluster policy in the various countries are systematized. The general regularities of formation of cluster policy of foreign countries and Russia are marked out. On the basis of synthesis of available positive foreign and domestic experience of development of effective cluster policy, the principles of its formation are revealed. Realization of these principles will allow to keep an active role of the state in regulation of rates and qualities of economic development of clusters, and also to provide formation of the centers of competences of economic and innovative development of the region, competitiveness of the domestic industry in the conditions of globalization.