The geopolitical position of the Urals, located on the border between Europe and Asia, in depths of continent, and its strategic invulnerability combined with rich resources and powerful metallurgical base had promoted the progress of military Industrial production (artillery guns, shells, rifles, blank weapons) in this region. However, in view of difficulties to transport the military products to the Centre of Russia for times before railways were constructed, the Russian Government preferred to develop military industries in western regions of the country, леаг the seats of war being then most probable. Under these conditions, the Urals' plants couldn’t get the military production orders regularly. Only in the wartimes, their huge military industrial potential tended to be used in full scope. Certainly underestimated by the Government, the geopolitical advantages of the Urals were revealed during the 1st World War, when the geopolitical imperatives cause a massive evacuation of equipments and labour from war*threatened areas to the Urals, as well as great extension of military production in the region. The result was the last increase of regional gravity in the overall military industrial potential of the country.