Trade and Commercial Entrepreneurship of Russians in Manchuria in the Late 19th — early 20th Centuries

Abstract

This article discusses the process of the economic penetration of the Russians into Manchuria at the end of the 19th — beginning of the 20th centuries. The relevance of the subject consists in the fact that Russian emigrants laid the foundation for the further development of industry, infrastructure and trade in this region. Since the construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway and the signing of the Convention for the lease of the Liaotung Peninsula Manchuria attracted workers, merchants, industrialists, traders and agricultural specialists. Russians began to establish industrial enterprises and factories. The Russian administration created the infrastructure in the cities, turning them into global trade markets. However, at the end of the frst decade of the XX century Russian entrepreneurship faced with crisis trends, the increased competition from foreign industrialists and the losing the The Russo-Japanese War hit the Russian economic interests in Manchuria hard.