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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">poisk</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">П.О.И.С.К.</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>P.O.I.S.K.</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2072-6015</issn><publisher><publisher-name>РУТ (МИИТ)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.30932/2072-6015-2026-116-3-12-20</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">poisk-387</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ПОЛИТИКА И ОБЩЕСТВО</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>POLITICS AND SOCIETY</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Международный транспортный коридор «Север—Юг» как инструмент внешней политики Российской  Федерации</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>The North-South international transport corridor as a tool of the russian federation's foreign policy</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Евлаев</surname><given-names>А. Н.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Evlaev</surname><given-names>A. N.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Евлаев Андрей Николаевич кандидат политических наук, доцент</p><p>Москва</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Evlaev Andrey Nikolaevich Candidate of Political Sciences, Associate Professor</p><p>Moscow</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">evlaev@ya.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Чеботарёв</surname><given-names>А. И.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Chebotaryov</surname><given-names>A. I.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Чеботарёв Алексей Игоревич магистрант</p><p>Москва</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Chebotaryov Alexey Igorevich Master’s student</p><p>Moscow</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">alekseichebotar98@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Российский университет транспорта</institution><country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Russian University of Transport</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff-2"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>МГУ имени М.В. Ломоносова</institution><country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Lomonosov Moscow State University</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2026</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>22</day><month>09</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>0</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>12</fpage><lpage>20</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Евлаев А.Н., Чеботарёв А.И., 2026</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Евлаев А.Н., Чеботарёв А.И.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Evlaev A.N., Chebotaryov A.I.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://poisk.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/387">https://poisk.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/387</self-uri><abstract><p>В условиях санкционного давления и перестройки глобальных логистических цепочек международный транспортный коридор (МТК) «Север—Юг» превращается из инфраструктурного проекта в самостоятельный инструмент внешней политики Российской Федерации. Актуальность исследования обусловлена необходимостью оценить, как Россия использует коридор для переориентации внешнеэкономических связей на Глобальный Юг и формирования устойчивой евразийской логистической архитектуры. Цель статьи — выявить место МТК «Север—Юг» в системе внешнеполитических приоритетов России и показать, как реализуются её национальные интересы по трём ветвям коридора — западной, транскаспийской и восточной. Исследование опирается на качественный анализ доктринальных документов РФ — Концепции внешней политики, Стратегии национальной безопасности и Транспортной стратегии, а также на актуальные статистические данные 2024–2026 годов. Применены институциональный, сравнительно-политический и структурно-функциональный подходы. Установлено, что грузопоток по коридору в 2024 году достиг 26,9 млн тонн, а ключевым звеном западной ветви становится строительство железной дороги Решт—Астара. Показано, что российско-иранское и российско-индийское взаимодействие выступает несущей опорой коридора, а основным конкурентом       остаётся Транскаспийский маршрут («Срединный коридор»). Сделан вывод: МТК «Север—Юг» становится для России инструментом «санкционно-устойчивой» внешней политики и системообразующим элементом Большой Евразии. </p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>Under sanctions pressure and the restructuring of global logistics chains, the International North—South Transport Corridor (INSTC) is being transformed from an infrastructure project into an independent instrument of the foreign policy of the Russian Federation. The relevance of the study stems from the need to assess how Russia uses the corridor to reorient its foreign economic ties towards the Global South and to form a sustainable Eurasian logistics architecture. The purpose of the article is to identify the place of the INSTC in the system of Russia's foreign policy priorities and to show how its national interests are realized along the three branches of the corridor — the western, the trans-Caspian and the eastern. The study is based on a qualitative analysis of the doctrinal documents of the Russian Federation (Foreign Policy Concept, National Security Strategy, Transport Strategy) and on current statistical data for 2024–2026. Institutional, comparative-political and structural-functional approaches are applied. It is established that the corridor's cargo flow reached 26.9 million tons in 2024, and that the construction of the Rasht—Astara railway is becoming the key link of the western branch. It is shown that Russian-Iranian and Russian-Indian cooperation acts as the load-bearing support of the corridor, while the main competitor remains the Trans-Caspian route (the "Middle Corridor"). It is concluded that the INSTC is becoming for Russia an instrument of a "sanctions-resistant" foreign policy and a system-forming element of Greater Eurasia.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>МТК «Север—Юг»</kwd><kwd>INSTC</kwd><kwd>внешняя политика России</kwd><kwd>международный транзит</kwd><kwd>Иран</kwd><kwd>Индия</kwd><kwd>евразийская логистика</kwd><kwd>санкции</kwd><kwd>Решт—Астара</kwd><kwd>«Срединный коридор»</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>INSTC</kwd><kwd>North—South corridor</kwd><kwd>Russia's foreign policy</kwd><kwd>international transit</kwd><kwd>Iran</kwd><kwd>India</kwd><kwd>Eurasian logistics</kwd><kwd>sanctions</kwd><kwd>Rasht—Astara</kwd><kwd>Middle Corridor</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Жильцов С.С. 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