Development of the Ural border regions as an important component of the cross-border integration of the Eurasian Economic Union

The article analyzes the dynamics of the development of foreign trade and development of the Ural border regions as an important component and effective tool for deepening cross-border economic integration in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). In the work under the concept of “cross-border region”, the authors mean Russian regions (constituent entities of the Russian Federation) that have interregional ties with administrative and territorial entities of foreign countries, some of which may not be territorially interconnected, and border regions are having land and other borders with contiguous foreign countries. The study is based on the scientific substantiation of the author’s hypothesis that the border regions are the driving force in the development of cross-border cooperation, since, unlike all cross-border regions, they have real opportunities and significant specific features in the development of interregional economic integration, which predetermined the topic of the article and determines its relevance.