Starting from the aims of the research conceptualizing the functional modelling of the geostrategic region), the characteristics of the historic strategies, applied in the basins of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans, have been specified. In the process of selecting the area units for the forecast design, the construct connectedness incorporated in the feedback loop between the problem of creating the region, the means of solving this problem, the associated theories, concepts, documents and events, has been approbated. The applied aspect of the futurological complex has been noted. The definition of the geostrategic region has been offered, and assumptions about its functional role under the conditions of the fourth industrial revolution, during which regions appear as mutagens of the international environment, have been made.