Russia's biggest problem is centralized major cities: Moscow and St Petersburg, everything else is a "province". US major cities are spread geographically: Bos

Russia's biggest problem is centralized major cities: Moscow and St Petersburg, everything else is a "province". US major cities are spread geographically: Boston, NYC, DC, Miami, Chicago, Seattle, SF, LA. Seattle was the gateway to Alaska. What's a gateway to Siberia? Vladivostok? Does Vladivostok has something comparable to Amazon, Microsoft and Boeing?