Economic and geographic aspects of new industrial and transport construction in Russia

The author conducted an inventory of investment projects implemented in post-Soviet Russia to determine the trends of the territorial organization of industry that are associated with the new construction. An exceptionally high territorial differentiation of industrial construction was revealed, which is expressed in its concentration in a small number of industrial areas and overconcentration in metropolitan regions. The total fragmentation of the single national economic complex in the course of market reforms is being replaced by an unstable trend of spontaneous complex formation. The analysis of the structure of new industrial construction did not reveal any signs of its greening. Two-thirds of the new projects involve the basic, ecologically aggressive sectors. The newly constructed transport infrastructure facilities are largely export-oriented rather than being enhancers of the connectivity of their territories. This vector of territorial development in Russia is negative from both geopolitical and environmental positions.