Prospects for Construction and Upgrading of Railways in the Urals and Adjacent Territories in Relation to Russian Strategic Planning Documents
- P.I. Tarasov1, M.B. Petrov2
1 Perspektiva-M’LLC, Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation
2 Institute of Economics of the Urals Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation
Russian Mining Industry №6 / 2020 р. 126-131
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of the situation and a comprehensive assessment of trends in the development of railway network in the Greater Urals. Although the development strategy of the railway transport is defined in a separate document for strategic management, there still remains an excessively high level of uncertainty regarding the medium-term prospects for the network development, and many of the prospective facilities that used to be within the scope of project initiatives in recent years have been withdrawn from it for an indefinite period. The article reviews these processes based on the trends, needs and opportunities available in the Greater Urals. Based on the performed strategic analysis of the railway transport network development some proposals are made on ranking of project initiatives in this macro-regional territory. A conclusion is made that the Northern Latitudinal Railway, the Belkomur Railway, Obskaya-Polunochnoe railway line as well as the North-Siberian Railway in its Urals section are the most sustainable projects in conditions of significant uncertainties and accumulated delays in development of the railway transport network.
Keywords: national strategies of developments, railway transport network, macro-territory of the Greater Urals, major project initiatives
Acknowledgements: The paper was prepared with support from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Project No. 20-010-00724).
For citation: Tarasov P.I., Petrov M.B. Prospects for Construction and Upgrading of Railways in the Urals and Adjacent Territories in Relation to Russian Strategic Planning Documents. Gornaya promyshlennost = Russian Mining Industry. 2020;(6):126-131. (In Russ.) DOI: 10.30686/1609-9192-2020-6-126-131.
Article info
Received: 18.09.2020
Revised: 25.09.2020
Accepted: 12.10.2020
Information about the author
Petr I. Tarasov – full member of the Russian Academy of Mining, Candidate of Science (Engineering), Deputy Director for Science, ‘Perspektiva-M’ LLC, Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation; e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Mikhail B. Petrov – Doctor of Engineering, Head of the Centre for the Development and Allocation of Labour Forces at the Institute of Economics of the Urals Branch of RAS, Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation; e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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