What is a Super-combine?

Abstract

The paper defines the concept of “Super-combine” as a production line of the macro-regional level, designed to produce record volumes of product. The term was first introduced by the author during development of the project “New Angarstroy: Baikal-Amur Metallurgical Super-combine”. The project resumes the traditions of developing complex integration projects for territorial development of Russia at the macro level – the level of economic districts and their conjugations, combining many constituent entities of the Federation. It is not right for the subjects of Federation to represent units of all-Russian territorial planning and compete for investments, often submitting the same small, local projects, that duplicate each other, to bid for resources of all-Russian and even World significance. Every major project of a national scale, such as the Ural-Kuznetsk Combine of the Past, which saved the country in the time of Great Patriotic War, and the proposed Baikal-Amur Metallurgical Super-combine of the Future, always integrates many subjects of Federation and each subject in its own way, based on their main resources for such an all-Russian project.