Humanities & Social Sciences 11 (2016 9) 2592-2598 ~ ~ ~ УДК 338.26 Transport Corridors of the Asian Part of Russia: the Role and Position of the Krasnoyarsk Territory (Krai) Vladimir Iu. <...> Malov* Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering SB RAS 17 Akademika Lavrentieva, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia Received 13.07.2016, received in revised form 27.09.2016, accepted 14.10.2016 Russian inclusion in the processes of globalization, on the need to require special attention to transport corridors. <...> S.Witte’s ideas about the priority attention to the development of the internal market today again become relevant. <...> The transport system of Krasnoyarsk region is a key part of the communications system throughout Russia. <...> Keywords: National political economy, internal market, transport corridors, the Asian part of Russia. <...> At the beginning of the 21st century, the fi eld of transport construction enters a new phase of formation of the global world systems and the international transport corridors. <...> Territories that are potentially rich in various natural resources but have the underdeveloped transport system do not remain without attention. <...> The idea of “compression” of the Russian economic space obtained a special sound. <...> A focus on the idea of the “new economic geography” (which laid the basis for the idea of mainstream) has led to desertifi cation of the Siberian and Far Eastern regions. <...> Transport Corridors of the Asian Part of Russia: the Role and Position of the Krasnoyarsk Territory… here, contradicts with the long-term strategic interests of Russia, but excellently corresponds with the so-called “Cosmopolitan economy”, the theory that ignores specifi c interests of individual states. <...> More than 150 years before Witte, similar ideas about the unconditional priority of the domestic market arose in works of our compatriot I.T. Pososhkov. <...> In the “Book of Poverty and Wealth” that was written for Peter I, Ivan T. Pososhkov offers to completely stop the importation of goods that can be produced in the country, though not so high-quality at fi rst. <...> Another our compatriot, D.I. Mendeleev, speaking at the Industrial Congress in Moscow in 1882 (i.e. before the decree on the beginning of construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway), insistently suggested to bear in mind the need to continue convenient routes to the East, anticipating the rapid growth of demand for industrial products in this region of the world. <...> At the same time <...>