The subject of this article is the analysis of regional aspects of Russian social policy in 1990s concerned with peculiarities of regulation of population's income in Russian regions. The author considered the changing of the models, goals, directions, methods and means of contemporary social policy in the sphere of population's income in a comparison with the period before socio-economical and political reforming. She characterized the dynamics of social interests of the subjects of Russian social policy and their roles in regulation of population's income. A.M. Sergienko revealed the regional peculiarities of such changing on the example of Altai region as one of unfavorable problem Russian region. This analysis was accomplished with using the statistical indices, the results of expert questioning of enterprise leaders and members of government structures and official documents of legislative and executive bodies of the Altai regional government.