Since Russian Federation has chosen a strategy towards orientation on import substitution, the topic of searching for alternative ways of industrial enterprise development through cooperative vertical and horizontal relationship becomes that of a primary interest. One approach to establish these relationships is using relative institutions . The Chamber of Commerce and Industry is an example of such institutions. Taxonomy of approaches when researching the Chamber of Commerce and Industry functioning from the viewpoint of voluntary and mandatory membership, reducing coordination costs in relation between its members and lobbying their interest toward government organs is given in this article. The difference between functions of regional and municipal Chambers of Commerce is shown. This in turn contributes towards theory and methodology of strategic management of domestic industrial enterprises. The municipal Chambers of Commerce are in the process of expanding and the Central and Southern districts play the leading role in this process.The article reveals terms of development of industrial enterprise and cooperation hub as well as peculiarities of cooperative interactions between industrial enterprises and their counterparts through formation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry as a kind of cooperation hub. Statistical methods are applied to identify relations between size of the cooperation hub and the level of producers’ cooperatives spread.