The Regional Development of the Economy of the USSR Under the Influence of Socialist Economic Integration

One of the important economic tasks confronting territorial planning is that of determining the avenues and methods of the rational location of the productive forces in the immediate and extended future. Internal factors influencing the regional development of the nation's economy and its territorial structure (1) are organically supplemented by foreign economic factors caused by the participation of the USSR in the international division of labor and socialist economic integration. (2)