Factors of placing of productive forces are substantial terms which must be taken into account at a study or decision of concrete problem. In the complement of factors include usually: position; population and labour resources; created production vehicle; present on territory infrastructure; noncommunicative natural resources (power, raw mineral-material, biological, water); transport factor; scientific and technical potential; forms of territorial organization of economy; management quality; social climate and other

The aggregate of factors is divided by objective and subjective. They properly form group and estimated because of importance. Certainly, composition of the taken into account factors depends on the examined problem.

A transition from the stage of industrial and extensive development to the innovative economy and informative society changes composition and correlations of importance of the taken into account factors of placing of productive forces. In Russia this process combines with transformation of the political and economic systems, creation of economy, requiring combination of individual, group (including regional) and national interests.

Systematization and actualization of conformities to law, principles, factors and empiric information is the initial stage of construction and update of normative theory of placing of productive forces, I.e. the stage of pre-theory. By him the stage of construction must follow structural, parts of theory.

Today large attention in a country is spared placing of productive forces and problem of the economic districting. Position is grounded, that the correct dividing of country into large economic districts (from 10 to 20) will be instrumental in their complex development (by internal co-operation), will strengthen the process of specialization in its economy. Hoped also for that the general economic districting will be able to compensate the lacks of conservative administrative-territorial division of country and in a prospect will enable to pass to state administration on large economic districts.

Since 20th of commission of anchorwomen of scientists countries which was used in the plan of GOELRO and five-year plans of development of national economy the USSR developed the charts of the economic districting. A modern net from eleven economic districts is saved (with small changes) from the beginning of 60th.

The theoretical grounds of the economic districting and forming of economic regional complexes related to him got most development in works of N.N. Kolosovskogo. Developed conception of the economic districting, the substantive provisions of which are taken to the following.

All territory of country is divided by economic districts, formed on production signs and presenting the in an aggregate complete system of regional combinations of productive forces.

Every economic district is the territory, uniting natural resources, production vehicle, population with his labour skills, transport communications and other financial values by the most advantageous appearance as combination, comprehensively developed in an economic relation (PTS).