A Historical Overview of Railway Construction and its Association with Economic Growth in Russia

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In socialist countries, centralized political structures had implemented planned economy system for many years, where capital and labor were allocated evenly based on national plans. Especially, transportation networks must have played important roles in distributing goods. The paper collected data of railway transportation construction development in Russia including Soviet Era to understand regional development difference and analyzed the tendency of it by making a difference model using industrial production value, regional population and railway infrastructure length. As a result, we found that there was a huge regional difference in railway development despite of the evenness. To understand the difference, we considered several geopolitical reasons in addition to economic reasons that might prove their decisions were rational.