The Urals and Kuzbass in the Ideology of the “Eastern Shift” at the Turn of the 19th — 20th Centuries
The article examines the main trends in the development of the Urals and Kuzbass in the late 19th — early 20th centuries, analyzing the factors that influenced both the acceleration and the slowdown in developing the industrial cooperation between these regions in pre-Soviet times. The possibility o...
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| description | The article examines the main trends in the development of the Urals and Kuzbass in the late 19th — early 20th centuries, analyzing the factors that influenced both the acceleration and the slowdown in developing the industrial cooperation between these regions in pre-Soviet times. The possibility of their interaction was the result of the second industrial revolution (1870s — 1930s), which, thanks to the development of mainline railway transport, for the first time created conditions for the integration of ore and fuel sources separated by significant distances in a single production scheme. In Russia, the first experience of organizing a transport-industrial “pendulum” between areas of iron ore and coal concentration was the Donetsk-Dnieper project. At the end of the 19th century, the possibilities of implementing a similar scheme began to be discussed for the Urals, where the fuel problem at that time acquired critical importance. The transition to protectionism in Russia’s economic policy led to the attention of the country’s state and scientific forces being switched to organizing transport and economic interaction between the Urals and promising regions for the extraction of coking coal, primarily with the Kuznetsk Basin. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the fast growth of coal production in the Kuznetsk Basin in connection with the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway stimulated the first experiments in using Siberian coal at the Ural plants, although before the 1917 revolution, the expediency of connecting the resources of the two regions was still at the discussion stage. The decisive argument in favor of organizing a stable connection between the Urals and Kuzbass was the forced restructuring of economic ties during the First World War. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9e4f96744d7f46e889ace8135e8968aa2025-08-20T02:03:26ZengYoung Historians Of The UralsИсторико-географический журнал2782-65113034-52862025-01-0141909910.58529/2782-6511-2025-4-1-90-99The Urals and Kuzbass in the Ideology of the “Eastern Shift” at the Turn of the 19th — 20th CenturiesK. I. Zubkov 0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5177-3183Institute of History and Archaeology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of SciencesThe article examines the main trends in the development of the Urals and Kuzbass in the late 19th — early 20th centuries, analyzing the factors that influenced both the acceleration and the slowdown in developing the industrial cooperation between these regions in pre-Soviet times. The possibility of their interaction was the result of the second industrial revolution (1870s — 1930s), which, thanks to the development of mainline railway transport, for the first time created conditions for the integration of ore and fuel sources separated by significant distances in a single production scheme. In Russia, the first experience of organizing a transport-industrial “pendulum” between areas of iron ore and coal concentration was the Donetsk-Dnieper project. At the end of the 19th century, the possibilities of implementing a similar scheme began to be discussed for the Urals, where the fuel problem at that time acquired critical importance. The transition to protectionism in Russia’s economic policy led to the attention of the country’s state and scientific forces being switched to organizing transport and economic interaction between the Urals and promising regions for the extraction of coking coal, primarily with the Kuznetsk Basin. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the fast growth of coal production in the Kuznetsk Basin in connection with the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway stimulated the first experiments in using Siberian coal at the Ural plants, although before the 1917 revolution, the expediency of connecting the resources of the two regions was still at the discussion stage. The decisive argument in favor of organizing a stable connection between the Urals and Kuzbass was the forced restructuring of economic ties during the First World War.https://hist-geo.ru/en/2025/05/15/zubkov-k-i-ural-i-kuzbass-v-ideologii-vostochnogo-sdviga-na-rubezhe-xix-xx-vv/uralsdonetsk-dnieper projectkuznetsk basintransport-industrial “pendulum”russiaferrous metallurgyrailwaysmining and metallurgical industry |
| spellingShingle | K. I. Zubkov The Urals and Kuzbass in the Ideology of the “Eastern Shift” at the Turn of the 19th — 20th Centuries Историко-географический журнал urals donetsk-dnieper project kuznetsk basin transport-industrial “pendulum” russia ferrous metallurgy railways mining and metallurgical industry |
| title | The Urals and Kuzbass in the Ideology of the “Eastern Shift” at the Turn of the 19th — 20th Centuries |
| title_full | The Urals and Kuzbass in the Ideology of the “Eastern Shift” at the Turn of the 19th — 20th Centuries |
| title_fullStr | The Urals and Kuzbass in the Ideology of the “Eastern Shift” at the Turn of the 19th — 20th Centuries |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Urals and Kuzbass in the Ideology of the “Eastern Shift” at the Turn of the 19th — 20th Centuries |
| title_short | The Urals and Kuzbass in the Ideology of the “Eastern Shift” at the Turn of the 19th — 20th Centuries |
| title_sort | urals and kuzbass in the ideology of the eastern shift at the turn of the 19th 20th centuries |
| topic | urals donetsk-dnieper project kuznetsk basin transport-industrial “pendulum” russia ferrous metallurgy railways mining and metallurgical industry |
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