Questions of Price Formation and the System of Railroad Freight Tariffs

The reorganization of industrial and construction management accomplished in conformity with the decisions of the February (1957) Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. and the Seventh Session of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R., created conditions for further improvement of the distribution of productive forces in the country, bringing industries closer to the sources of raw-materials, resources of fuel and energy, and regions of consumption. Economic Councils formed in the economico-administrative regions, are taking measures for the improvement of specialization and cooperation of enterprises, taking into consideration the most effective exploitation of natural resources and manpower of their economic regions, and for improvement on this basis of intra-regional economic and transportation connections. Under such conditions the role of economically justified tariffs on transport, designed to stimulate the establishment of the most rational (from the point of view of the national economy) intraregional connections, is growing.