Ekaterina Anatolyevna Zapevalova,
Postgraduate Student, Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Editor, Publishing Hhouse “Quartz”, Nizhnii Novgorod, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Industrial Enterprises in Women’s Ownership and Management in the Nizhnii Novgorod Province in the 1890s
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2023-5-15
The article focuses on the activity of women entrepreneurs in the Nizhnii Novgorod province at the end of the 19th century. According to the directory “Factory industry of Russia. The list of factories and plants” (containing information for 1895), 38 industrial enterprises belonged to women from the Nizhnii Novgorod province. The largest number of them were in the food industry (10 confectionery, brewing and vodka enterprises), in the leather industry (9 enterprises produced harnesses, mittens, etc.), in mechanical engineering and metalworking (6 enterprises). Women also worked in the field of soap making, and electrical engineering. Most of the enterprises were inherited from fathers, husbands, and other relatives. For example, Olga Karpova and her brother received the largest machine-building plant in Nizhnii Novgorod and a shipping company under the will of their childless uncle, merchant Ustin Kurbatov.
Publishing: 28/10/2023
The article has been received by the editor on 02/09/2023
How to cite: Zapevalova E.A. Industrial Enterprises in Women’s Ownership and Management in the Nizhnii Novgorod Province in the 1890s // Historical Courier, 2023, No. 5 (31), pp. 215–229. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2023/ISTKURIER-2023-5-15.pdf]
Links: Issue 5 2023
Keywords: entrepreneurship; merchants; female entrepreneurs; factories; plants; Russian Empire; Nizhnii Novgorod province; 19th Century Russian History; Nizhnii Novgorod; women’s history