Managing the Sustainable Development of Municipalities in the Context of the Implementation of the SDGs.

Sustainable development issues require comprehensive actions to achieve them – from national governments to local municipalities. There is a special need to form a comprehensive and balanced policy of sustainable socio-economic development at the municipal level. The article reveals the concept of sustainable development and key approaches to ensuring the management of the development of municipalities in Russia, taking into account the global principles of sustainable development. The hypothesis is put forward that the choice of a sustainable development strategy by municipal leaders largely depends on the economic state of the municipality, the political goals of municipal leaders-managers and the activity of the population. The research summarizes the materials of the study of the practice of municipal management in the municipality of one of the cities of the Moscow region. The current foreign experience of strategic documents developing focused on the active implementation of the principles of sustainable development is presented. This was done in order to study the "best practices" to activate the process of transition to sustainable development in Russia. The approach proposed by the authors to the development of a socio-economic development strategy is described in detail on the example of a Russian municipality – the "Stupino" urban district. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]