Perspectives of subsidy-free development of the Republic of Tyva

In the program of social and economic development of the Republic of Tyva to 2010 considered in the paper the development of infrastructural sectors and, in particular, of transport is emphasized as an essential precondition for investment activity in the region’s economy. Such projects however are not attractive for private sector and make a classic field for cooperation of central and regional bodies of state power. The paper provides economic justification on construction of the Kyzyl-Minusinsk (Kuragino) railway required in respect with the development of the Elegestsky coal field and other parts of the mineral complex. It is argued that with pulling together central, regional and private resources will make this complex of projects economically payable.