World Bank – The case for infrastructure development is strong and easy to make. Indeed, it has been at the center of Russian politics ever since Peter the Great embarked on the process of Russia’s modernization. It drove Sergei Witte’s resolve to develop the railway system and construct the Trans-Siberian railway from Moscow to Vladivostok that was completed in 1896 and opened the gateway to the Pacific almost 200 years after St Petersburg had been founded as the country’s gateway to the west. And it was the major force behind huge infrastructure developments of the Soviet era, such as major hydro-electric power systems.
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