Strategic Planning in the Sphere of Culture: Russian Experience of Regional Cultural Policy
The article is dedicated to the experiences of creating strategic planning documents in the field of culture at the regional level. Strategies of the cultural development of four regions of the Russian Federation (the Belgorod region, the Vologda region, the Ulyanovsk region and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Yugra) were used as documents for the analysis. The author examines the development of the actual trends of regional cultural policies related to the transition from programming to strategic planning. The key factors for the analysis are substantial aspects of strategic planning documents, and the process of their creating and methodology of their implementation. Different models of regional cultural policy and its priorities are based on the methodology of preparation of the strategies. Variability of the models is well represented. The paper presents examples of departmental oriented cultural policy (the Belgorod and Vologda regions) as well as examples of cultural policy of expanded participation (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug -Yugra and the Ulyanovsk region).