Assessing Potential and Prospects for Participation of the Ural Federal District in creating Euro-Asian Transport Corridors

Abstract

Strengthening of foreign economic ties in the Eurasian direction is observed in the context of economic cooperation between Russia and fast growing Asian countries. The Ural Federal District, due to its middle geographical position, gets the opportunity to benefit from the current peculiar economic and geopolitical conditions. The article is devoted to the study of foreign trade and transit potential of one of the largest macro-exporting regions of the country. Russia’s trade relations with the CIS and non-CIS countries are considered; prospects for the macroregion’s participation in creating international transport corridors are determined.