Humanities & Social Sciences 11 (2016 9) 2697-2705 ~ ~ ~ УДК 331.5; 304.5 Investing into Siberian Human Potential Development: Investment into “Export” Professionals or Growth of Local Human Capital Assets? <...> Irina P. Vorontsova and Liudmila K. Vitkovskaya* Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 27.07.2016, received in revised form 19.09.2016, accepted 27.10.2016 The article studies the problem of human capital assets of Siberian and Arctic zones based on the example of the Krasnoyarsk Territory (Krai). <...> The research is carried out with the fi nancial support of Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation (RHSF) within the project titled “Methodological Approaches to Migration Flows Monitoring for the Formation of Living standards Control System in the Siberian Regions and Differentiated Policy Development”, Project number 15-12-24008. <...> Introduction Within tendencies the past 15 years, the following in the socioeconomic development of the Krasnoyarsk Territory (Krai) have developed: – rapid growth of population (by 81% due to migration gain); ageing of population (specifi c gravity of people over the working age is much higher than 12%); decrease of the working-aged population, and, as a result, growth of dependency on each employed person in the local economy. – improvement of living standards in the region: emergence of new pre-school education © Siberian Federal University. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: vip64@mail.ru; LVitkovskaya@sfu-kras.ru # 2697 # facilities, leisure and sports facilities, higher availability of education, public health, culture services. – growth of the cash wages of the population with high differentiation of wages by groups of population, slowdown of labour productivity growth; – relatively high scientifi c, educational, innovative potential with the low demand for innovations in the real sector; achievement of average Russian indicators of research activity development in the publication activity and export of technologies; Irina P. Vorontsova, Liudmila K. Vitkovskaya. <...> Investing into Siberian Human Potential Development: Investment… – establishment of structural disproportions in the labour market for more than a half of all vacancies: lots of low-qualifi cation vacancies and problems with fi nding suitable jobs, unemployment among young people and college graduates (up to 45%); – outfl ow of highly-skilled specialists from the region. <...> Professional education of the Krasnoyarsk Territory (Krai <...>