Abstract: Considering of Russia’s geopolitical interests in the Arctic, the Russian federal government is making great efforts to implement its Arctic strategy. Russia has taken various measures in the process and gained some effects. The main measures and effects include: strengthening strategic control of the Arctic region and gradually establishing domination of the multi-level geopolitical space in the Arctic; actively driving the construction in Russia’s Arctic as a "resource strategic base", promoting economic and social development of the region, enhancing Russia’s strategic position in the energy pattern of the word; controlling the "Northern Sea Route" as a pivot of transportation, trying to gain the geostrategic dominance and the initiative of international relations; actively expanding Russia’s space of national interests to the high Arctic Ocean through the works in the fields of science, law and others.

Key words: Russia, Arctic strategy, measure, effect, geopolitics