Railway Construction in the Russian Empire Strategy for Turkestan Development
УДК 94(575.4):625.1 ББК 63.3(5Тур)+39.2
Abstract
With the annexation of vast territories of Turkestan to the Russian Empire to Central and local administration took up the task of establishing the control region, ensuring the security in the light of the rivalry with Britain for influence in Inner Asia and its economic development to a new colony brought the Empire in the long term benefit not only military-strategic. A necessary condition for the consolidation of Russia in Turkestan and its modernization was to create a communications network that meet the requirements of the emerging industrial society: Railways, steamers, telegraph. At the same time, the railway construction in Turkestan, its pace, financing, road routes were determined by the priorities of Russia's policy in the region, among which military-strategic considerations clearly dominated over economic development. However, constructing the TransCaspian Railway, and then Tashkent Railway, the state, not with the beginning of the 20th century Turkestan economic development current strategy, acted as an actor of the region economic modernization. Railways became a means of economic binding of Turkestan to Russia, as well as one of the factors in the formation of the economic development strategy of the region in the metropolis interests, which consisted in its transformation into a cotton base for the needs of Russian industry.
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