Humanities & Social Sciences 9 (2016 9) 1916-1928 ~ ~ ~ УДК 330.101.8 The Socio-economic Effectiveness of Funding for the Motor Roads Network Skeleton Formation in the Region Mikhail B. Dvinskiy*, VIadislav N. Rutskiy, Elena N. Pochekutova and Alexander M. Bulavchuk Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 25.01.2016, received in revised form 14.02.2016, accepted 16.06.2016 The article describes dependence and influence of the roads maintenance and financing indicators on social and economic development of the region. <...> Today Russia is experiencing an active phase in the process of social and economic automobilization. <...> The Krasnoyarsk Territory is one of the leaders among other regions on the number of cars per capita, and Krasnoyarsk takes the second place in this rating among the country’s cities. <...> The small business development, increasing number of private cars per population and vast territorial length make the motor roads a crucial factor in the socio-economic development of this region. <...> The estimation of economic losses for the Krasnoyarsk Krai caused by the basic roads network underdevelopment and the influence of expected budget reductions on this process are presented as the final conclusion. <...> Keywords: roads network skeleton, economic losses, socio-economic development, value of statistical life. <...> This paper was written under financial support in the framework of the RFH Grant №15-12-24007 а (р) “The Methodological Approaches to the Formation of the Applied Models for Analysis and Forecasting of the Resource Regions of Russia Economy in the Terms of Spatial Inequality and Asymmetry (on the Example of the Krasnoyarsk Territory)” DOI: 10.17516/1997-1370-2016-9-8-1916-1928. <...> Research objective Within the modern conditions of development against the backdrop of negative processes in the international economy and decline in prices on hydrocarbons Russia has faced a deterioration of the budget system indicators: the growth in expenditures under the © Siberian Federal University. <...> In the beginning of 2000s, the Federal Budget surplus was followed by a deficit; the regional budgets indicators (shortage rate) were even worse. <...> Having been quite a healthy federal entity in the sense of budget, for the period 2008 – 2015 the Krasnoyarsk Territory had to increase the public debt from Mikhail B. Dvinskiy, VIadislav N. Rutskiy. <...> The Socio-economic Effectiveness of Funding for the Motor Roads Network. 1,5 billion rubles (for the end of 2008) to 92 billion rubles (as at 1 April, 2016). <...> This process has been <...>