Marina Namzhilovna Baldano,
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ulan-Ude, Russia, e‑mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Aleksandra Tsydendambaevna Dasheeva,
Postgraduate Student, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Buryat State Academy of Agriculture named after V.R. Filippov, Ulan-Ude, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Elena Viktorovna Dyatlova,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Faculty of Service and Advertising, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Chinese Enterprises in the Timber Economics of Siberia: Business Practices and the Local Population
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2023-4-3
Throughout post-Soviet history, society has maintained a steady interest in the entrepreneurial activities of Chinese migrants. Many stereotypes and ideologized assessments are observed in the area of participation of Chinese migrants and Chinese investments in forestry. Primary industrial processing of the forest is most economically efficient near the place of its extraction, in small, often remote villages – already existing or specially created. This inevitably includes Chinese businesses and their Chinese personnel in complex, sometimes conflicted, relationships with local, small and relatively closed communities with extremely limited resources to exist. Chinese enterprises can be assessed by local residents either as an additional resource, or as an attempt on their resources and the usual way of life. In addition, different groups of local residents may have different interests in this matter, respectively – different models of attitude, which can also provoke conflict situations. Therefore, studying the problems associated with the Chinese forest business is important, relevant and scientifically significant. The article shows on separate examples what practices of economic activity and social interactions are formed in the process of formation and development of the industrial forest business of Chinese entrepreneurs, what is the reaction to them in the host communities of villages, working towns, small cities.
Publishing: 28/08/2023
The article has been received by the editor on 03/04/2023
How to cite: Baldano M.N., Dasheeva A.Ts., Dyatlova E.V. Chinese Enterprises in the Timber Economics of Siberia: Business Practices and the Local Population // Historical Courier, 2023, No. 4 (30), pp. 36–48.[Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2023/ISTKURIER-2023-4-03.pdf]
The article was made on the topic of the state assignment “Russia and Inner Asia: Dynamics of Geopolitical, Socioeconomic and Intercultural Interaction (17th–21st Centuries)” (№ 121031000243-5).
Links: Issue 4 2023
Keywords: Chinese migrants; unloading and sorting station; timber business; investment project; Chinese sawmill; host side