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This paper describes a study of the quality and living standard of the population of municipal districts of the Irkutsk oblast, the Republic of Buryatia, and the Zabaykalsky Krai in the context of a typed regional policy, whose activities are aimed at improving the human potential of the region as a whole with no account for the individual characteristics of each munici pal district. The region is characterized by significant intraregional imbalances in the socio-economic development of munici pal districts, which affect the living standards of the population, thereby allowing one to identify the problems and prospects of human development. It is shown that the successful development of human potential requires effective measures as part of the strategic programs of socio-economic development of the municipal districts of the Baikal region. Priority directions are proposed for increasing the human potential in seven groups of municipal districts, distinguished by geographical location and the ratio of urban and rural population (urbanized, low-urbanized, rural, northern, transboundary, suburban, and near-high way). Taking into account the territorial features of the region allows one to determine the human development vectors more accurately.