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A significant historiographical problem is the historical and economic research formation in the Novosibirsk Scientific Center. The article shows the effect of Vladimir Alexandrovich Lamin’s works on studying the economic history. V. A. Lamin devoted several decades to a key scientific problem of the development and implementation of transport development projects in the northern and eastern regions of Russia. The article analyzes in detail the development of research approaches due to the original source base, appeal to the historical geography tools for the historical material analysis, intention to study key historical sources in a wide chronological and thematic context including cross-country comparisons. The important element of V.A. Lamin’s style is the aspiration to consider transport different types in their relationship, to indicate the influence of technological breakthroughs on the construction pace of new communication lines, organization of cargo flows, and the transport industry economy in general. Tracing the problem field expansion of V. A. Lamin’s studies of the economic history of Siberia, the author notes that, without leaving an increasingly detailed research of transport projects, he turnet to a retrospective analysis of the most important resource sectors of the economy of the eastern borders - gold mining (for the XIX and early XX centuries), and oil and gas production - for the second half of the XX century. The article describes the results of joint research projects carried out by historians and economists with V. A. Lamin’s participation. The last thirty years, V. A. Lamin aimed his fellow historians at expanding the problem field of studying projects for the natural resources and industrial development, their practical implementation including social and demographic consequences. As a result of scientific and organizational efforts by V. A. Lamin, the historians have comprehended a huge amount of factual materials, formed a major scientific direction, and created fundamental collective works of an interdisciplinary nature.