Аннотация:The article discusses legal problems of improving state policy and strategic planning for nature management in the Arctic. The results of the study of the valid documents of state strategic planning prove that the Arctic requires the acts (strategies) of spatial development, which must take into account both economic aspects of the development through the creation of "ecosystem-based management of human activities", and environmental aspects, providing legal preservation of Arctic ecosystems during the implementation of the environmental management. The latter also take into account all of the Arctic threats and challenges in the implementation of the main directions of the development of the Arctic region.