Vladimir Petrovich Mikityuk,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Institute of the History and Archaeology of Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The Role of Yekaterinburg Merchant Class in the Development of Interregional Trade in Lard the End of 18th – 19th Centuries
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2023-5-6
In the 18th–19th centuries lard trade played an important role in the economy of the Russian Empire. This trade had both local and interregional character. Entrepreneurs of many Russian regions, including the Urals, were interested in this type of business activity. The article examines the participation and role of Yekaterinburg merchants in the interregional trade in lard in the last quarter of the 18th–19th centuries, as well as the methods of procurement operations (purchase of raw bacon, melted bacon and cattle), the organization of processing of raw materials and the mechanism of delivery of finished products to major ports for export to Europe, primarily to Great Britain. The studied materials allow us to assert that the presence of a number of favorable factors allowed Yekaterinburg merchants to become some of the leaders of the Urals-Siberian region in this type of trade for a relatively short period of time. The article notes that the success of local merchants attracted the attention of entrepreneurs from other cities to Yekaterinburg. They took leading positions in the lard trade over time. Participation in the lard trade and organization of bacon production have been one of the leading activities of Yekaterinburg merchants for a long time. The increased competition on the part of merchants from other regions, the decline in demand for lard because of a technical progress, the strengthening of sanitary control measures during transporting livestock in the last quarter of the 19th century cooled down the interest of the Yekaterinburg merchant class to the lard trade. Only individual entrepreneurs continued to be engaged in this kind of activity aimed mainly at satisfying local needs.
Publishing: 28/10/2023
The article has been received by the editor on 30/06/2023
How to cite: Mikityuk V.P. The Role of Yekaterinburg Merchant Class in the Development of Interregional Trade in Lard the End of 18th – 19th Centuries // historical courier, 2023, no. 5 (31), pp. 101–108. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2023/ISTKURIER-2023-5-06.pdf]
Links: Issue 5 2023
Keywords: entrepreneurship; merchants; lard trade; water transportion; animal transportation; Urals; Ekaterinburg; Ishim fair; Irbit fair; Russian-British trade; Great Britain