Formation of the representations of Russian Empire's center on the mastering of the Far East through the means of transport (based on the «News of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society»)

The article examines the ideas of the center of the Russian Empire about the transport development of the Russian Far East at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The source for the study is the «News of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society», published between 1884 and 1903. The relevance of the work is due to the incompleteness of the transport development process in the region and the important role of representations in it. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the introduction of some new sources and materials into scientific circulation. The object of the study is the representations of the center of the Empire, which were formed in the process of interaction between the government and the public of the capitals from the views characteristic of these groups – in the form in which they appear on the pages of the «News of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society» for 1884–1903. The purpose of the work is to identify the reflection of these ideas about the transport development of the Russian Far East in the «News of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society» for 1884–1903. The main tool of the study is the comparative historical method. It is noted that the main attention was paid to those communication routes that were useful for the creation of transit transportation and required corresponding measures to improve them. In this regard, water transport, namely river and sea transport, was considered first and foremost. It was they who were most often spoken of as the most promising access routes for the transit railway. It is concluded that the measures proposed in relation to different types of transport depended on the general government policy in the region. It is noted that it is expedient to further study the representations about the transport development of the Russian Far East.

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