Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal. 2020. № 4 (36). P. 272—283
07.00.00 HISTORICAL SCIENCES AND ARCHEOLOGY
UDC 94(470.56)“188/189”
Rodnov Mikhail Igorevich, Doctor of Historical Sciences
Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
ECONOMIC TIES OF ORENBURG AT THE TURN OF THE 1880s — 1890s (BASED ON MATERIALS FROM THE ORENBURG BRANCH OF THE VOLZHSKO-KAMSKY BANK)
Abstract
The financial documentation of the Orenburg branch of the Volzhsko-Kamsky commercial bank, opened at the end of 1884, is a new source on the history of Orenburg. The study of annual reports for 1884—1893 made it possible to establish the geography of economic contacts of the Orenburg merchants by two main indicators — transfers (transferring money through a bank) and a bill of exchange operation, when short-term IOUs were paid through the bank. The results of the study show a rapid growth in capital transfers, approximately three times over the specified period, and the bulk of transfers directed to Moscow (66%). Economic ties with Nizhny Novgorod, one of the main wholesale trade centers of the Russian Empire, and other fairs, as well as neighboring cities of the Middle Volga region and the South Urals (Samara, Ufa, Saratov, etc.), remained of great importance. Banking documentation allowed to establish the personal composition of Orenburg entrepreneurs conducting their financial transactions through the Volzhsko-Kamsky bank. The analysis of the financial contacts of the local merchants indicates the formation of the regional market as part of the all-Russian successful economic development.
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Rodnov M. I. Economic ties of Orenburg at the turn of the 1880s — 1890s (based on materials from the Orenburg branch of the Volzhsko-Kamsky Bank). Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal, 2020, no. 4 (36), pp. 272—283. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32516/2303-9922.2020.36.16.