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The main purpose of the article is to analyze how the transport provision of the remote areas of the Far East was reformed during the period of social and economic transformations. For the most part communication lines were built in such areas due to the creation of geographically isolated extraction facilities and very often they were dead ends. Development and improvement of some related elements of life support were given a minor role. Analysis of events and qualitative changes, most closely related to the present time, requires a broader methodological framework in addition to the classical principles of historicism and dialectic cognition. Key provisions of the transitional society theory constituted the conceptual basis for the conducted research. The break- up of the Soviet Union, the following social and economic stagnation and search for the new tools of regional policy adapted to the market requirements in the Russian Far East at the beginning of the XXI century are viewed as processes of escalating uncertainty, recurrent risks amidst the total crisis and intensive social transformations. In order to realize the stated objective the author applied descriptive, comparative-historical, historical-genetic, and retrospective scientific methods. Research findings clearly demonstrate that the period under study was marked by persistence of considerable contradictions that led to substantial disproportions in communications deployment, inconsistent and excessively rapid changes in provision of the remote regions, absence of clear strategy for their development and support. The author reveals consequences of transformations in the sphere of legal regulation and material resources of regional transportation which allows expanding the range of root causes of deficiencies in the current transportation system and taking them into account in the modern innovative development programs proposed for the Russian Far East.