Trans-Siberian railway as a leading Euro-Asian international rail network on the territory of the Russian federation

This study aimed to investigate the need of formation of the international transportation network in the conditions of increase of globalization of the world economy. It was determined that the concentration of the international freight traffics greatest in the world in the territory of Eurasia, especially on the geo-economics direction Europe - the Asia-Pacific region. The shortest and safe way is a transportation of freights through Russia. So, the conducting place in a state policy of Russia on formation of the ITN is taken by the Trans-Siberian Railway. The possibilities of Trans-Siberian Railway in ensuring the international transit container transportation as an alternative to traditional sea route around Africa across the Suez Canal. According to this some other routes are characterized as a outlet of Trans-Siberian Railway to the foreign countries: to the EU-countries in the west, includes a prospective expansion of the railway track from Kosice (Slovakia) to Vena (Austria), and in the east - railways to Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China and Korean Peninsula with already furbished sector of two kinds of the railway track from Khasan - Tumangan to the port Rajin. The possibilities of increasing uses of Trans-Siberian Railway through the geography of freight traffics, especially of containers from Japan are discussed in this article. Also the main directions of development of redistributed cargo transportation between Trans-Siberian Railway and Baikal-Amur Route for increasing the effectiveness of using the TSR as European-Asia international transportation route are shown. From one side, the attention focuses on other competitive advantages of TSR; from the other side - on the “narrow spaces” which will be excluded after the reconstruction and additional construction of some new sectors, also with a optimization of functioning of all the of freight traffic chain.