Political and spatial components of the Russian transport policy in the second half of the XIX - early XX century

Abstract

Russia in the past and today is a huge space where it is necessary to constantly broadcast the political interests of society, concentrated in the center of the country to remote regions that have political military economic significance for the state. For centuries, the direction to the east seemed to be one of the most important areas of Russia’s development, which was and remains due to its position between the West and the East. Conducting an effective transport policy in the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century further created a serious safety margin that allowed the Russian Far East to survive the imminent tests of revolution, civil war, international intervention, to live and develop as part of a single Russian state.