Distribution of Socialist Production, planned and balanced distribution of the productive forces throughout the country, the spatial long-term planning of the development of the economic branches. Public ownership of the means of production makes it possible to distribute socialist production in a scientifically sound way in conformity with objective economic laws. Among the basic principles of the distribution of socialist production are: its planned and balanced character, recognition of the status of science and technology, comprehensive economic development of the country’s regions, location of enterprises close to the sources of the raw materials and to consumer areas, and the rational division of labour among economic regions. The balanced distribution of productive forces economises on the social labour and makes it more productive, accelerates the development of economically less developed regions, eliminates long and irrational transport, resolves the socially important problem of overcoming the essential distinctions between town and country, etc. The establishment and development of territorial-production complexes is a salient feature of the economy of developed socialism in the USSR. A tremendous contribution to the development of productive forces in East 91 Siberia and the Far East will be the completion and opening of the Baikal-Amur Railway. Once the world socialist system emerged, the Leninist principles of distribution of production became internationally recognised. Socialist economic integration makes possible the international socialist division of labour (see Division of Labour, Socialist International), the rational combination within the world socialist economic system of certain proportions of the economic development of individual countries and the entire system, and a highly efficient and balanced international socialist economy.