Report of O. A. Struve, Candidate for the Chairmanship of VIII Department. Part 2

Abstract

The final part of the article, first published in Rail Business [Zheleznodorozhnoe Delo] journal 110 years ago, introduced to the readers the report of O. A. Struve, presented at the Solemn General Meeting of the members of the Imperial Russian Technical Society on April 15, 1911, on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the emergence of railways in Russia, chaired by the Honorary Chairman of the Society His Imperial Highness Grand Prince Alexander Mikhailovich. The second part of the report refers to always relevant issues of calculation of transport accessibility of the regions and connectivity of the country, of cooperation and not competition between railways and water transport, social or commercial nature of investments in transport infrastructure. As figuratively noted the author of the report, «there is no any doubt that each rouble invested in construction of railways while it is a rouble buried in the ground add the value to this ground by much more than this rouble costs». The first part of the report was published in the previous issue of the journal (Vol. 19, Iss. 4 (95)).