ABSTRACT
The trend toward transforming Siberia into a fuel-energy appendage for the industrial development of the western regions of the country is increasing. The very foundations of Siberian economic development was the creation of an enormous surfeit of electrical-energy capacity. The power shortage that appeared in the 1970s and is tending to become more serious is the direct result of a distortion in investment in Siberian power the predominance of investment in hydroelectric power and the extremely limited investment in thermoelectric power. The strained situation with electric power became an additional factor hindering ministries from locating manufacturing industry enterprises in Siberia. The rate of development of Siberian machine-building does not at all conform to the region's growing requirements. In the post-war period the location and specialization of machine-building enterprises in Siberia, determined by branch ministries, was governed primarily by the interests of industrial branches. The economic structure of Siberia and the region's own requirements were given the lowest priority consideration.
