THE EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF SIBERIA AS THIRD RUSSIAN STRATEGIC GEOPROJECT
The article substantiates the thesis that in the history of Russia three strategic geoprojects were implemented: “northern”, “southern” and “eastern”. The first, “northern”, was associated with access to the Baltic and White seas, with the habitation of the Volga lands. The “southern project” consisted in the development of chernozems of the so-called “wild field”, access to the Black and Caspian seas. The development of Siberia is the third and most important strategic Russian geoproject, which marked the transformation of Russia from a great European to a great Eurasian and World power. Today the Siberian geoproject is not completed and needs to be translated from extensive (colonial-raw) - in the intensive (leadership-innovative) stage.