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This paper studies the prerequisites for growth in the transport activity for maintaining the delivery of material resources and goods to the northeastern regions of Russia that are related to the prospects for the development of productive forces in the region. The completion of the construction works on the Amur-Yakutsk Mainline (AYaM), projects for building a railway to the city of Magadan, and measures for developing a basic year-round highway network are shown to radically change the freight movement to the northeastern regions. The economic rationale of the intraregional freight flow redistribution is estimated, the configuration of the network of transport and logistics centers is designated, and the zones of their influence are described. The redistribution of the major import and export flows of material resources and produced goods from river to railway transport is shown to be efficient (Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM), AYaM, and interaction with the Trans-Siberian Mainline). The growth in freight flows of the northeastern vector will require the reconstruction of these strategic mainlines.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Kugaevskii, 2012, published in Region: Ekonomika i Sotsiologiya, 2012, No. 2, pp. 144–160.
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Kugaevskii, A.A. Formation of prospective freight flows in the transport sector in the northeast of Russia. Reg. Res. Russ. 3, 414–421 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079970513040060
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