  The article discusses the basic concepts of strategic planning in the Russian
Federation, highlights the legal, financial and resource features that act as
restrictions in decision making in the field of socio-economic development of
municipalities. The analysis concluded that to design an adequate model of
socio-economic development of municipalities is a very difficult task,
particularly when the traditional approaches are applied. To solve the task, we
proposed to use the semantic modeling as well as cognitive maps which are able
to point out the set of dependencies that arise between factors having a direct
impact on socio-economic development.
