Transport and energy infrastructure of Eurasia as a basis of its sustainable development

Abstract

A territory equipped with infrastructure is the most important component of Russia’s national wealth. It is not only the natural resources, but also the material and spiritual capital of the country, the source of its welfare and sustainable development. The Eurasian economic integration as the first step assumes the creation of the general infrastructure as a framework of development and productive forces. Key points of infrastructure system coincide with the territorial and production clusters (TPC) in which power and commodity flows are concentrated. The scheme of their connection is not simply a communication network but is a blood system of all Eurasia. Infrastructure is a requirement of the population migrations, transport and power communications, and information and institutional integration. In Eurasia’s territory, 5 width and 3 meridian corridors of development are allocated, it creates the cellular scheme of integrated development of space and formation of the world power system.