%0 Dataset
%T 
%J Arid Land Ecology and Resources Science Data Center
%I Arid Land Ecology and Resources Science Data Center(data.dcxjegi.cn)
%U https://data.dcxjegi.cn/portal/metadata/e7e316ae-cd8f-4d03-94ce-c1989ed3759e
%W NCDC
%R 10.12389/ariddc.02058
%A Documentation Information Center
%K ;;;;;
%X Among the urgent issues in the geography of Siberia and the Far East are the planning and prospective development of the taiga regions, including the geographical aspects of the industrialization of Eastern Siberia, the largest taiga region. The first two articles in this volume are devoted to these questions.In his article Problems of the Economic Geography of Eastern Siberia, V. A. Krotov examines the position of Eastern Siberia within the system of Soviet economic regionalization. The author addresses a number of controversial views related to the regional organization of productive forces, including, in particular, the question of how the boundary between the two major economic regions of Eastern Siberia and the Far East should be more appropriately defined. V. A. Krotov advocates assigning the Yakut production complex to the Eastern Siberian region. His discussion of a distinctive “Eastern Siberian” economic type and of the creation of one of the world's largest industrial centers on the basis of local natural resources is especially timely. In such a center, energy-intensive and heat-intensive industries would be located closer to raw-material sources. As technology advances and the overall productive capacity of society grows, the profitability and efficiency of utilizing Eastern Siberia’s natural resources should steadily improve.Eastern Siberia encompasses several physical-geographical regions and is characterized by considerable natural diversity. Although this diversity is somewhat obscured by the pronounced continental climate common to the entire region, it nonetheless determines differing natural-economic conditions and, consequently, differing economic prospects. The vast expanses of Eastern Siberia still require comprehensive investigation, and its economic potential has yet to be fully revealed. At present, the primary task is integrated geographical research, especially in the mountainous taiga regions, where enormous mineral resources are concentr