Аннотация:Russia consists of 83 regions which are called subjects of Federation. They are very different in terms of political status, national autonomies, availability of resources, climatic conditions, distance from borders and the capital, size and population density. GDP per capita differs in Russian 20 times, but this difference had a tendency to decrease after 2005 year. Our article presents the typology of Russian regions based on aggregate classifications. The aim of typology is to identify regions with similar characteristics and promote their collaboration and implementation of similar policy measures. Regional typology is also beneficial for making comparisons between regions and to conduct benchmark analysis (Development of a regional typology – Aim, methods and results, 2010). In previous studies, conducted in the early 2000, Russian regions were aggregated in 7 groups - “Producers and consumers”, “Oil exporters and consumers”, “Pour consumers”, “Rich investors”, “Pour investors”, “Transitional”, “Depressive” (Buts et al., 2002). The economic conditions during the period of more than 10 years significantly changed in Russia and now the composition of groups of regions and their number have changed significantly. Government regional redistribution policy and increased level of complexity in Russian economy resulted in the increasing number of groups of regions. Authors of the article use cluster analysis techniques (Ward’s method) for identifying groups of regions according to their living standards, investment attractiveness, economic potential, institutional environment, and innovative development. Authors also build a compositional classification of regions based on their resilience to crises. In the article authors also test the hypothesis about convergence of Russian regions. Domestic authors (Drobishevsky, 2005; Sorokina, 2011) showed that there was an absolute convergence among Russian regions during 1994-2002 and 2000-2008 years. In the article authors also investigate how did financial and economic crisis of 2008-2009 affect the convergence of Russian regions