The Kursk Magnetic Anomaly—A Promising Iron-Ore Base for the Iron and Steel Industry of the Urals (based on a territorial model of the Soviet economy)

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Abstract
Following a previous article prepared together with N.M. Budtolayev and Yu. G. Saushkin (see Soviet Geography, November, 1965), the author develops the theory of a territorial model of the Soviet economy in general, and proposes a section of the model relating to the future ore sources of the Soviet iron and steel industry. It is argued that the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly would provide a more economical ore source for the iron and steel mills of the Urals than the nearby iron deposits of Rudnyy, in northwest Kazakhstan, or the small, scattered, and remote iron deposits of Siberia. The cost of economic development in the east and the availability of a heavy eastbound traffic of empty freight cars are cited as factors.

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