The National Strategy of Spatial Development: Is It the Conscientious Delusion or Deliberate Simplification?

The article considers creation issues of the national strategy of spatial development of Russia. It is shown that methodological approaches that form the concept under discussion do not correspond to modern concepts of spatial economics, which actually means that the national economic space is recognised as an additive set of closed perfect economies, unrelated to each other neither hierarchical nor cooperative relationships. The author notes that the submission of the national spatial strategy as a simple sum of strategies of the Russian Federation subjects rejects interconnection, inter-regional agglomeration and integration effects and blocks specialization effect