Question
Describe the economic significance of Trans-Siberian Railway.
Solution
The significance:
1.This railway line transport machinery and other implements from the industrially develop centres of European Russia to the regions in the eastern Siberia. Thus it has helped in the development of resources of the Siberian Russia to the maximum.
2.Siberian part of Russia is an agriculturally developed region. Food grains, cotton and sugarbeet are transported to the western region.
3. It contributes in the development of industries by providing raw material and power resources in Siberia from west to the east.
4.A number of navigable rivers like Volga, Ob and Amur are the important points of transshipment.
5.Trans-Siberian Railway have played important role in the integration and political stability of Russia.
Fig.: Trans-Siberian Railway
