The role of Transsibe in the state migration policy of Russia (1891—1914)

Abstract

The article analyzes the role of the Transsib in the state migration policy of Russia in the
late XIX — early XX centuries, connected with the modernization of the economy and society.
Conclusions are drawn that with regard to the territorial aspects of economic growth and
industrialization, the successes of the government policy of accelerated development should
be assessed through the degree and forms of state participation in the conscious projection of
spatial economic shifts and the formation of a large economic space as prerequisites for outstripping
the development of a capacious domestic market and adequate to scale The country
of the resource-material basis of the economy. From this point of view, laying Transsib was not
so much the satisfaction of current economic exchanges, but rather the transformation of the
country into a single indivisible economic whole. Transsib, this largest railway project was not
so much a direct response to the urgent economic needs of developing ties with Siberia, as a
visionary, strategically oriented project.