Advantages:
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The key advantages are the agro-climatic and soil resources, which provide for the relatively high level of the development of the agro-industrial complex, as well as the development of the ferrous metallurgy based on the iron deposit fields of the Kursk magnetic anomaly. Besides, the close proximity of the Ukraine and the Republic of Belarus is the stimulus for the development of foreign trade, including trade with the neighboring countries.
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Priority development trends: according to the project "The Concept for Long-Term Social and Economic Development of the Russian Federation" for the period until 2020.
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- Agro-industrial complex – as the sales markets for the products of food processing industry expand into the largest consumption centers;
- The development of mining, metallurgical and processing industries in the Belgorod, Kursk and Lipetsk regions, connected with the variety of types of engineering based on domestic metallurgic raw materials;
- It is required to increase the capacity of the transportation communications of the southern direction and also develop the railroad communications Oryol – Kursk – Rostov-on-Don, Oryol – Kursk – Belgorod – further to the border of the Russian Federation with the Ukraine; additional volumes of energy resources.
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