TERRITORIAL-PRODUCTION COMPLEXES

In light of the renewed stress on the creation of territorial-production complexes during the current five-year plan (1976–80), a prominent economic geographer reviews the Soviet approach to such complexes, with particular emphasis on lower-level intraregional entities, combining a series of interrelated productive and service activities as well as population (as the source of labor) into an integrated whole. The cost benefits that can be derived from common engineering communications, transport lines and support industries are discussed in detail. A simple classification distinguishes industrial complexes, combined agricultural-industrial and industrial-agricultural complexes (depending on the predominant activity), combined industrial-transport complexes, and service complexes (in which research and development, education, and other service functions predominate). The author died in February 1976 at the age of 72.]