Galina Anatolievna Tkacheva,
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia, e‑mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Land Communication Routes in the Strategy for Ensuring Security of the Eastern Borders of the USSR in 1922−1945
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2025-2-6
The article presents the main directions of transformation of the road infrastructure of the Far East region in the spatial and communication system of the USSR in the 1920−1945s using a new source base. It was revealed that it was transformed using militarized methods of the administrative-command model of interaction between central structures and subordinate organizations and enterprises of the industry. The presented statistical data on the operational length of land communication routes and their type characteristics made it possible to determine that the new configuration was created according to a forced scenario to increase the capacity of military-strategic roads, integrating the region into the territorial and economic space of the country. The formation of the logistics structure of land communication routes was considered as one of the areas of external and internal strategy for ensuring the country’s defense capability, which unloaded the railways from inefficient transportation requiring numerous reloads, but did not solve the problem of industry interaction. Departmental disunity led to the dispersion of resources, and in conditions of over-watered soil and sharp temperature changes with a shortage of building materials and labor, to impassable roads.
Publishing: 28/04/2025
The article has been received by the editor on 18/01/2025
How to cite: Tkacheva G.A. Land Communication Routes in the Strategy for Ensuring Security of the Eastern Borders of the USSR in 1922−1945 // Historical Courier, 2025, No. 2 (40), pp. 78–94. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2025/ISTKURIER-2025-2-06.pdf]
Links: Issue 2 2025
Keywords: visual turn; 1946−1953; 1949 as a “place of memory”; teachers and students; memoirs of Soviet historians; images of Soviet students in photography