In this research, the author has investigated the present situation of Yakutskaya agriculture, as a case of agricultural exploitation in Northern Siberia, and has obtained following results.
In the present agriculture of Yakutskaya ASSR, animal-husbandry is the most important, because the climate in this area is unfavorable for crop farming (the length of the frost-free period is too short for crop growing) and there-to Yakutskaya agriculture is characterized by lower yield of crop production than average yield of crop in USSR per ha, the low level of mechanization (especially, the mechanization of animal-husbandry), the shortage of workers for agriculture, the dispersion of cultivated land in the vast area of kolkhoz, and so on.
In such situations, crop production of Yakutskaya ASSR is flat and food supply in this area relies on other areas.
The agricultural development plan as one part of Yakutskaya economic development plan has been made on the basis of economic development plan for Eastern Siberia. According to the plan, in the coming 7 years agricultural output in Yakytskaya ASSR is expected to be several times more than in 1958. But still the important part of agricultural production is not in grain production, but in livestock products, potatoes and vegetable products.
Consequently, grain will still be transported from other areas to Yakutskaya ASSR, and Yakutskaya agriculture will not be able to give sufficient supply for its population.
Crop farming and animal-husbandry, both of which need much labour, prevail in Yakutskaya agriculture. But even in recent years this area is in want of both labour force and agricultural machines, and its labour productivity is low and the cost of agricultural products is high. In order to raise labour productivity and reduce the cost of agricultural products, it is necessary to promote mechanization, to carry out rational plans of cultivation, rapidly to expand forage reserve, to abolish the dispersion of cultivated land and farm and so on.
Therefore, for further agricultural development in Yakutskaya ASSR the following measures must be taken: sufficiently to supply agricultultural machines, to increase agricultural labour force and to invest large funds for measures of raising the labour productivity.

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This paper examines Russian gas export policy and interaction among Russian national government, Gazprom and other actors in the negotiation on sales of Russian gas to China. How do Russian domestic actors participate in policy decisions and implementations? What kinds of roles are expected to Gazprom in political sphere? And also, to what extent can Gazprom’s action be subject to the restriction of Russian government’s decisions? These questions are significant to identify Russian energy governance in gas policy field.
Of course, the trend of an international energy market affects on corporate decisions of Gazprom. There are arguments that the decisions of huge state-owned company lead Russian gas policymaking. However, Russian government has found strong significance to long-term energy policy since beginning of the 1^st Putin’s administration. Putin’s administration prefers to build centralized and “vertical” political system, this approach was also applied in economic arena. As a result, Russian government strengthened stock controlling for state-owned companies, and carried up reshuffle of the top-management. These facts show that Gazprom’s corporate decision depends on Russian domestic political games.
Russians promotes industrial development in the Far East and the East Siberia through strengthening of energy cooperation with the countries in Northeast Asia. They expect to lay down gas transport infrastructures in the Far East and the East Siberia with expansion of the gas export to the countries in Northeast Asia as the driving force, and to build the basement of economic development through fostering resource-processing industries. The key document is “the Eastern Gas Program” which the Russia government and Gazprom established together. This is a policy document of regional development and the gas export for China and other Asia-Pacific countries. Gazprom were assigned for a resources development coordinator in the Far East and the East Siberia.
Though Gazprom gained dominant position for regional development in the Far East and the East Siberia,it bore too heavy burden at the same time. “The Eastern Gas Program” gave top priority to secure gas for economic development in the Far East and the East Siberia. Therefore, Gazprom had no choice but to suggest export of West Siberian gas to China, so that it secured promising new gas fields in the Far East and the East Siberia for domestic use. This caused competitions over gas business interests in Russian domestic political process.

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