The natural-resource basis of development of “the river gates” of the Asian Russia

Abstract

The article considers one of the largest territorial entities of the Russian Federation – the Amur Region which occupies border location at the south-east of the Asian part of the country. Lying in the geospace of the transport corridors, the region is so called “the river gates” for the Asian Russia and for all countries of the North-Eastern Asia. The territory under study belongs to the most economically developed regions of the Far East that is first of all, stipulated by the specific character of its economic-geographical location, the unique character of natural and climatic conditions, large areas of plain territories with dominating meadow-chernozemic land, very high agricultural development against the general background of agricultural structure of the land-utilization of the Far Eastern economic district. The relevance of the research is indicated by the growth of the regional investment prospects and also by the search of the first choice directions of the perspective use of the natural-resource potential of the Amur Region in the context of the geographical proximity to the most dynamically developing part of the world – countries of the Asian-Pacific region. The regional factor variety of the Amur Region development highlighted by the author – allows to consider it as a powerful and real reserve of the build-up of the food, fuel and energy, mineral-extractive basis of the development not only of the Russian Far East but countries of the Asian Pacific Region in whole.