On some issues of the organization of the transportation of state-owned goods in the Yakut region in the 18th – 1 quarter of 19th centuries
https://doi.org/10.25587/SVFU.2022.99.18.007
Abstract
The article is concerned with the delivery of various goods at the turn of the 18th – 1st quarter of the 19th centuries to remote places of the Yakut region and to the Okhotsk Sea, which became more active in connection with the promotion and development of new territories in the Northeast. These processes increased the need for cargo delivery to the separated distant territories of the Russian Empire and became one of the special spheres of activity of the Yakuts. The article reveals how for a century and a half the drayage duty – the obligation to provide horses and guides for the transportation of goods to Okhotsk and a number of other places was put a heavy burden on the uluses of the Yakut district. It is shown how, being conditioned by strategic state tasks of border protection, strengthening the role of Russia in the region, the issue of cargo transportation by Yakuts was the cornerstone of the Yakuts’ relationship with the local administration and the tsarist government. Around this issue, there was not only bargaining about the price of transportation, but also about the division of powers and power over the indigenous peoples of the Yakut region. The article analyzes the issues of organization and distribution of state cargo transportation, up to the Port of Okhotsk, Kamchatka and Russian America, as well as its impact on the socio-economic situation of the Yakut feudal lords, based on archival data. Archival materials have preserved valuable information for science.
About the Authors
Valentina Semenovna Akimova
M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Akimova, Valentina Semenovna – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of World, National History, Ethnology, Archeology, Faculty of History
Yakutsk
Nikolay Ilyich Vasiliev
M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Vasiliev, Nikolay Ilyich – student of the Faculty of History
Yakutsk
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Akimova V.S., Vasiliev N.I. On some issues of the organization of the transportation of state-owned goods in the Yakut region in the 18th – 1 quarter of 19th centuries. Arctic XXI Сentury. 2022;(3):114-128. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25587/SVFU.2022.99.18.007
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