TRANSPORT POLICY OF THE MOSCOW PROVINCE ZEMSTVO IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE XIX CENTURY

Abstract

This article is devoted to an important component of the Moscow provincial Zemstvo’s activities - the road sphere. The new local governments introduced by Alexander II faced a set of complex problems, the most important of which was constructing the roads. In this article the author considers the main stages and milestones of a road management development in Moscow region. The pace of development and the statistics of roads construction is also discussed. The way Zemstvo’s territorial bodies solved the problems connected with roads constructing. Having carried out the complex analysis of the road sphere within the period of 1864 - 1893 the author concludes that new territorial bodies of Moscow province successfully coped with the problem of road construction and providing means of communication in Moscow region.