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In article the analysis of the role of natural productive forces and the specifics of the life cycle of infrastructure projects on the example of the transport system is given. The directions of the increase of the infrastructural efficiency in the historical prospect together with the strategies of the territorial development of the regions of natural forces location are studied. The theoretical and methodological basis of the research are the convergence of evolutionary, historical, system, endogenous and exogenous methods of the analysis, the use of theories of the balanced development, spatial economy, provisions of the institutional regionalistics, “new geography”. The authors especially emphasize that that infrastructural projects in their locations do not intensify the public production and its own efficient use automatically. A full disclosure of potential opportunities of the use of natural productive forces which are the basis for their functioning requires a complex development of the territories where they work taking into consideration the opportunities of the efficient load of the infrastructure. For infrastructural projects as well as for the separate enterprises it is possible to isolate the separate stages of a life cycle: formation, growth, maturity and end. But they are the reflection of the specificity of the development of the economic actors for which the common infrastructural conditions of functioning are created. That’s why the stage of the end is for them a temporary one which is active till the moment when the conditions of functioning of the maintained objects are improved. This circumstance should be taken into consideration at the implementation of the complex program of use of natural production forces put into the basis of the realization of infrastructural projects, development of public production of territories of their location and also the systems of their reciprocal influence. The theoretical analysis is based on the statistical and archive materials about the construction of one of the directions of the transport infrastructure i.e. the Stalingrad region of the line Stalingrad – Vladimirovka. The historical analysis of its development proves that beyond of the complex development of a territory even an infrastructural project based on natural production forces like for example the analyzed transport railroad main (Volgograd – Astrakhan) does not allow maximally using the available potential and influences partially the positive development of the territory of their location.