From the Editor
The study of the history of industry and trade in the Russian Empire has entered a new stage of development in the last thirty years.
Contemporary researchers of industrial history of Russia are guided by the inspiring works of their predecessors who began their investigations in the 19th century such as M.I. Tugan–Baranovsky’s “The Russian Factory in the Past and Present”, E.M. Dementiev’s “The Factory: What it Gives the Population and What it Takes From it”, Y.E. Yanson’s “Comparative Statistics of Russia and Western European States”, as well as V.P. Bezobrazov, I.M. Kulisher and a number of other outstanding academicians.