“…The Central Committee had officially initiated construction projects of new TPCs in its Basic Guidelines for the Development of the National Economy in 1976–80 , which cemented the position of the model as the principal economic geographical model and as a practical planning tool for the rest of the Soviet period (Linge, Karaska, & Ian Hamilton, 1978). The Soviet articles analyzing the prospects of the TPC plans from this period (e.g., Kosmachev & Losyakova, 1976; Shotskiy, 1976; Sochinskaya, 1977) reflect a consensus regarding the role of the TPC model as an integral part of the projected technological trajectories.…”