Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal. 2019. № 4 (32). P. 53—65
07.00.00 HISTORICAL SCIENCES AND ARCHEOLOGY
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Bespalko Denis Nikolaevich, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor
Transbaikal State University
HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT OF SABLE TRADE IN THE TERRITORY OF EASTERN TRANSBAIKAL TERRITORY (XVII CENTURY — 1960-ies)
Abstract
Based on a set of documents from the Hunting Department of the Chita Region and related funds for economic development of the region, the article discusses the key problems of sable fur production and the development of commercial labor in the territory of sable grounds in Eastern Transbaikal Territory. The chronological framework of the study is determined by the beginning of classical formation of team exploitation of breeding grounds (mid-17th century) and the 1960s, when the sable population that had been completely destroyed in pre-revolutionary times was restored as a result of a complex of breeding and restoration works. Particular attention is paid to issues of the organizational crisis, the decline of the team exploitation of the sable fur grounds. The author concludes that the inevitable decline in sable breeding at the turn of the XIX—XX centuries, caused by the mass extermination of the species, led to the breakup of numerous breeding groups and a number of other problems that arose during the period of collective-farm hunting. However, the sable fauna recovery that followed in the late 1940s — 1950s and the overall strengthening of the hunting-breeding complex helped the sable repopulation and made the production of valuable furs most efficient.
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Bespalko D. N. History of development of sable trade in the territory of Eastern Transbaikal Territory (XVII century — 1960-ies). Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal, 2019, no. 4 (32), pp. 53—65. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32516/2303-9922.2019.32.4.