Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia:
S. P. Petrov, Cand. Econ., Senior Researcher, Dept. of Analysis and Forecasting of Industry Systems Development, e-mail: petrov.s.p@mail.ru

The paper considers the current state of the iron and steel industry in Asian Russia, a geographical area that includes the Siberian and Far Eastern federal districts, as well as the Tyumen region with its constituent autonomous districts. Modern directions of development of production technologies in ferrous metallurgy are presented. It is substantiated that the role of the environmental factor has significantly increased in the system of society's interests, primarily on the part of consumers, which has identified two main directions in the development of technologies in the ferrous metallurgy, namely, reducing energy consumption and reducing emissions. Based on a review of technologies, an analysis is presented of the compliance of production processes in the Asian Russia`s ferrous metallurgy with modern trends in the development of the industry, which made it possible to single out two sets of projects - supporting and developing. The first one is connected with the support of the formed metallurgical region in Siberia and is focused on the resource provision of the existing production, as well as its modernization. The second one is connected with the emerging region in the Far East (Khabarovsk and Primorsky Territories, Jewish Autonomous Region), where, according to the authors, the conditions for direct ore-reduction metallurgy based on the production of direct reduced iron and steel in electric arc furnaces have been created. This will allow limiting its possible negative impact on the environment in the process of formation of the fourth metallurgical region of Russia.
The article was prepared based on the results of a study conducted with the financial support of the Russian Federation represented by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia within the framework of a large scientific project "Socio-economic development of Asian Russia based on the synergy of transport accessibility, systemic knowledge about the natural resource potential, expanding space for interregional interactions”, Agreement No. 075-15-2020-804 dated October 02, 2020 (grant No. 13.1902.21.0016).

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