Abstract: The goal of this work is to research the mechanisms, forms and principles of implementation of youth policy in the Russian Federation. The subject of this research is implementation of youth policy in the Russian Federation. As key components, the author meticulously examines the problems of normative support of state youth policy in Russia and practical aspects of implementation of its priority vectors. Research is conducted on the example of specific subject – the Primorsk region, which currently has a special role in the socioeconomic, innovation and investment development of the country. Main conclusions consists in the following: current conditions of absence of unified concept aggregate for youth policy exerts negative impact of the choice of organizational and financial mechanisms in implementation of youth policy, which is the reason for formulation of original understanding of the definition of “youth policy”. In conclusion, the author emphasizes the reasonableness of development and modernization of infrastructural objects of youth policy, and importance of educated prioritization of the key vectors of implementation of the state youth policy in the Russian Federation. The results of this research can present scientific and practical value, be used in the work of the branches of government in researching the problem of implementation of state youth policy and development of specific campaigns for improvement of mechanisms of its realization.

Abstract: This article presents various theoretical and methodological research approaches to the study of youth as a specific social community on the basis of modern socio-political thinking (complex, class, psychoanalytic, structural-functional, cultural, social system, integral). The article analyzes the theoretical elaboration of youth issues and highlights the factors for the definition of "youth" in political science.