ABSTRACT
Economic policy pursued since the Revolution has made Russia one of the great industrial powers, in which industrial self-sufficiency has often been at the expense of other sectors of the economy. Contemporary geographical distribution of industry bears traces of the pre-revolutionary pattern adapted to fit Marxist-Leninist doctrines, whose application to industrial location and regional planning has produced a much wider territorial spread. Byproducts of coking plus imported and local raw materials are the basis of the well-developed heavy chemicals industry. The textile industry is markedly concentrated in the Central Industrial region and has shown little shift in its major location patterns since before the Revolution, so that it truly lies neither near its raw material sources nor near some of its most important markets. Designed to use Bureya coke and local ores, it is uncertain whether Komsomolsk in the Far East does in fact smelt ore, but its tin-plate works serves the Pacific fishing industry.
