Mikheev M. V., Yarkov Ya. Yu., Temryukh A.V. Kalinin Region in the System of Inter-Regional Relations 1940–1953

Mikhail V. Mikheev
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Institute of History and Archaeology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia, Ekaterinburg)
ORCID: 0000-0001-8097-4953
E-mail: mikheeviiiauroran@yandex.ru

Yaroslav Yu. Yarkov
Institute of History and Archaeology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia, Ekaterinburg)
ORCID: 0009-0008-0408-8106
E-mail: yarik5006@yandex.ru

Andrey V. Temryukh
Institute of History and Archaeology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia, Ekaterinburg)
ORCID: 0009-0007-4524-0373
E-mail: a-temryuh@mail.ru

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UDC 94(470.331)«1940/1953:913»
DOI: 10.58529/2782-6511-2025-4-4-54-61

ABSTRACT. Based on transport statistics, the article attempts to analyze the place of the Kalinin Region in the system of interregional freight transportation of coal, oil, metal goods and machine-building products along the USSR railway network in 1940, 1946 and 1953. It is established that on the eve and after the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet government considered the prospects for the development of the Kalinin Region in the context of the problems of the economic functioning of the Central Economic Region of the Russian Federation. These problems consisted in the disparity between the region’s industry and its fuel and raw material base, which hindered the further development of productive forces here. The latter, in turn, required a reorientation of the Center’s districts from the consumption of long-range imported industrial raw materials from the Caucasus and Ukraine to intraregional resources and raw materials supplies from the Asian part of the USSR. Transport statistics data showed that, in general, the evolution of interregional relations in the Kalinin region in 1940–1953. It took place in accordance with state planned designs, but was accompanied by the influence of external factors caused, first of all, by the German aggression of 1941–1945. By 1953, the Kalinin Region was mainly supplied with fuel and raw materials from nearby regions, actively developing its own engineering industry. According to the authors, the presented material demonstrates the prospects of using transport statistics of the USSR to carry out a comprehensive historical and economic zoning of the Soviet Union, subject to similar studies in relation to other chronological periods, regions and categories of goods in the future.

KEYWORDS: Kalinin Region, interregional freight transportation, railways, the Great Patriotic War,
the USSR, economic history

For citation: Mikheev M. V., Yarkov Ya. Yu., Temryukh A. V. [Kalinin Region in the System of Inter-Regional Relations 1940–1953]. Istoriko-geograficheskiy zhurnal [Historical Geography Journal], 2025, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 54–61. DOI: 10.58529/2782-6511-2025-4-4-54-61 (In Russian).

Received 15 September 2025
Accepted 1 December 2025

© 2025 The Authors

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