Volkov Yu. G., Popov A.V., Uzunov V. V. Social forecasting in innovative development of Russian regions: theoretical problems of sociological research. Humanities, socio-economic and social Sciences, 2019, No. 2, pp. 42-46. Volkov Yu. G., Popov A.V., Uzunov V. V. Social forecasting in innovative development of Russian regions: theoretical problems of sociological research. Humanities, socio-economic and social Sciences, 2019, No. 2, pp. 42-46.ISSN 2220-2404DOI 10.23672/SAE.2019.2.26687РИНЦ: https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=37169479Posted on site: 08.08.19Текст статьи на сайте журнала URL: https://online-science.ru/m/products/social_sciense/gid5044/pg0/ (дата обращения 08.08.2019)AbstractThe article deals with the methodological potential of social forecasting in the innovative development of Russian regions and the management of this process. It is shown that the scenarios of regional development, implemented mainly in the format of the inertial model, are not able to provide an innovative breakthrough in Russia, and, together with a mass of unresolved social problems, the social space of the country appears as a crisis and does not contain prospects for the transition to a qualitatively different state. The search for these prospects with appropriate management support in the form of implementation of effective models of innovative development is seen by the authors in the application of scenario thinking as a technology of social forecasting.