Increase of Investment Attractiveness of Resource-Deficient Region

—The authors proposed in the article the author's concept of "resource-deficient region". The content of the interpretation "investment attractiveness of the region" by Russian and foreign researchers is revealed. Suggested sources of increasing the investment attractiveness of resource-deficient region (activities for analysis of the current situation of the region; establishment of effective regional legal framework to govern relations with the internal and external investors; making a long-term vision of changing the investment attractiveness of the region in a strategic plan at the level of bodies of state power; solution of organizational and technical tasks to increase investment attractiveness; clarification of the composition of the participants making managerial decisions on region investment attractiveness increase; identificaion of the main mechanisms of development of investment activity in the region; selection of control methods and evaluation of the effectiveness of implemented measures to improve investment attractiveness of the region). A system of regulations requiring accounting and changes in the implementation of the mechanism to increase the investment attractiveness of the region is described. The role and functions of the strategy in increasing the investment attractiveness of the resource-deficient region are substantiated. The elements of the investment development strategy of this region are presented.