Abstract
The natural resource potential (discovered, explored and measured reserves of natural resources) of the Russian Federation since the beginning of the 21st century and at present is distributed as follows: about 25% of this potential is concentrated in the European regions of the Russian Federation and the Urals, in the regions of Siberia -about 40%, in the Far East region of the Russian Federation -about 35%.In the Far East of the Russian Federation, they build military and civil aircraft, ships, but the main thing that they bring from here is timber, fish, and minerals.This makes it possible to qualify the Russian Far East as a resource-type region.Sustainable development of the Russian Far East and ensuring the competitiveness of its economy is associated with overcoming a number of significant problems and the achievement of the corresponding imperatives of rational environmental management in the region, which are discussed in the article.Keywords: natural resource potential, the