The History of the Construction of Railways in Siberia and the Steppe (Kazakh) Region: the Contribution of the Merchants to the Development of the Railway Line in the late XIX - early XX centuries
К вопросу о строительстве железных дорог в Сибири и Степном (Казахском) крае: вклад купечества в развитие железнодорожной магистрали в конце XIX - начале XX вв.
Gabdulina A.Zh. Turkhanova A.Zh. Kurmanbayeva L.T. Abisheva Z.R.
1 June 2022International Network Center for Fundamental and Applied Research
Bylye Gody
2022#17Issue 2834 - 843 pp.
In the second half of the XIXth century, the socio-economic, cultural processes reorganization Russian began but the war with Turkey suspended this modernization. Transformations began to enter an active phase by the end of this century, when tsarist Russia began to actively work to overcome the socio-economic and technical backwardness of the country. One of the key factors in the development of trade and industry was the construction of railways and the connection of the east of the country with the west, the southern territories with the northern part, that is, this involved the opening of peripheral regions through railways to the central part of the state. The Russian Empire was considered an agrarian country, despite the increase in various types of transport, the expansion of territories it still remained a predominantly agrarian empire. However, by the end of the XIXth century, the State Program was created, which contributed to the accelerated expansion of industrial development at the expense of territories with rich minerals including the territory of Kazakhstan. Such a political and economic course made it possible for Russia to free itself from dependence on industrial imports and at the same time gave impetus to the economic development of the country. This research considers the history of the construction of railways in Siberia, Kazakhstan in which the industrial and merchant nobility of Siberia, Kazakh landsmainly played, using the example of public personalities Pleshcheevs, A. Moskvin and others.
history , industry , Kazakh region , merchant class , outskirts of the Russian Empire , railroad , railway line
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Saken Seifullin Kazakh Agrotechnical University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
Academy of Logistics and Transport, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
Saken Seifullin Kazakh Agrotechnical University
L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University
Academy of Logistics and Transport
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