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

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.