ABSTRACT
The natural resource and economic potential of the Far East is distributed across its territories in a very uneven manner (see Figures 8.1 and 8.2). The three southern areas of the region (Khabarovsk Krai, Primorskii Krai, and Amur Oblast), which constitute about one-fourth of the land area of the Russian Far East, contain more than 65 percent of the population. It is also here that the main part of the productive potential of the region is concentrated: 57 percent of the fixed production capital and more than 63 percent of the labor force. These southern areas receive more than half of all investments in the Far East (see Table 8.1). The share of the remaining administrative territorial units, in all these indicators, is relatively small.
