Specifics of the entrepreneurial practices of the Tatar merchants of the city of Troitsk, Orenburg province, in the context of Russia’s modernization (the 60-s of the XIX — early XX century)
Elsa M. Gibadullina, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor
Bugulma branch of Kazan Innovation University named after V. G. Timiryasov, Bugulma, Russia, gibelza@yandex.ru, https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1029-1104
Abstract
The article presents an analysis of the entrepreneurial activity of the Tatar merchants of Troitsk, Orenburg province, in the 60s of the 19th century — 1917. It is concluded that they adapted to new social conditions for the application of capital and business activity that began to form after the abolition of serfdom and changes in foreign policy in the south-east of the country. It is noted that the main content of entrepreneurial practices became a strategy of developing new and simultaneously conducting various business lines. The Tatar merchants not only continued to trade with the former khanates of Central Asia and the Kazakh Steppe incorporated into Russia, but also opened stationary trade facilities in Troitsk, established associated capital enterprises — trading houses, organized processing industry enterprises, participated in the activities of the city public bank, geographically expanded business activities by developing historical and cultural markets and newly created cities on the territory of the former Kazakh zhuzes, the Turkestan General Government and Northwestern China.
Gibadullina E. M. Specifics of the entrepreneurial practices of the Tatar merchants of the city of Troitsk, Orenburg province, in the context of Russia’s modernization (the 60-s of the XIX — early XX century). Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal, 2025, no. 1 (53), pp. 83—106. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32516/2303-9922.2025.53.6.
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