Ensuring the Sustainable Development of Russian Regions: The Practice of New Times

Many tasks in pandemic active phase were excluded from the list of strategically important. This contributed to a decrease in regional population well-being and now requires intensified efforts of the state in the recovery phase. Paper investigates a set of economic, social, and environmental tasks to reveal measures aimed at their return to the trajectory of sustainable development during post-pandemic recovery. The authors conducted an analysis of social, economic, and environmental data of 2019–2021, which allowed them to compare the dynamics of indicators in the period before the pandemic, in its acute stage, and in the post-pandemic recovery stage. The authors research sustainable development indicators. However, some responses to the crisis have mitigated its effects, more on the economic and social sphere than on implementing environmental measures. Paper recommends strengthen investment in building competencies in environmental knowledge, the need to form a regional reserve fund to finance projects to develop “clean” infrastructure, as well as introduction of lean consumption technologies in the activities of regional businesses.