This article is devoted to the study of the essence and content of crisis management in the modern economy. Based on the analysis of existing interpretations of the concept of "crisis management", given by foreign and domestic scientists, we have given the author's definition of this concept. Based on the study of existing approaches in economics to the interpretation of the concepts of "crisis" and "crisis management", the author's interpretation of these phenomena is given in the article. Also in the article, the author defines the goals, objectives, principles and trends of anti-crisis management in modern conditions of economic development of Russia, since it is the anti-crisis management system that will allow organizing rational management of domestic enterprises. The main problems of anti-crisis management in the conditions of the coronavirus pandemic, as well as the functioning of domestic enterprises in the conditions of economic sanctions imposed against Russia by Western countries, have been identified.