Creation of a Geopolitical-Level Transport System in Russia as a Driver of Spatial Socio-Economic Development

The article analyzes the prospects for creating a new transport system at the geopolitical level, which is a critically important task not only for the coming decades, but also for the very near future. Russia’s active participation in the 'transport redistribution of the world' will make it possible not only to create new elements, but also to radically modernize existing nodes of the transport system. The implementation of the ideas of the Social Megaproject will ensure a southern breakthrough of the trade blockade of Russia, organized by the West because of its own. Modernization of the transport system according to the Megaproject scheme will avoid increasing dependence on the unfriendly policies of neighboring countries in the field of logistics. Unjustified slowness in the deep modernization of the Russian transport system threatens an inevitable rollback to the periphery of the global development of the entire economy of the country, the most important social programs for the Russian population. Indicative indicators of financial and economic justification and model calculations, the economic effect of the increase in tax revenues during the construction and operation of the Integrated Eurasian Transport System and the Trans-Eurasian Development Belt are given, which will determine the development of a number of high-tech industries in Russia, connectivity of the territories of the Russian Federation and improvement of economic interaction between regions, etc. The social effect of the Megaproject is described, both in the railway and in related industries.