TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE AS BASIS FOR ECONOMIC INTEGRATION OF SIBERIA AND THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST
In the context of strengthening international competition in most economic activities and developed countries' economic and spatial dominance over peripheral resource territories, it is becoming more and more relevant to carry out studies on creating economic regions with extremely low anthropological development in Siberia and the Russian Far East. This work deals with problems of building up a new format of strategic infrastructure and its influence on the territories mentioned above. The issue is studied by the example of a transport infrastructure that provides an integration basis for creating an economic and geoeconomic region. The study finds that railway transport is the keystone of a strategic transport infrastructure in the examined territories and that its priority development determines factors of economic growth and enhances emergence and sustainability of an economic region by dividing a territory into economic zones. Infrastructural transport development adds to generating mineral-resource and fuel-and-power bases, which makes it possible to create new economic regions. Overall, the more exact definition of infrastructural development of territories will contribute to optimization of invested resources and diversification of the resourcebased economy of the region.