Mikheev M. V., Baev O. V. On the History of the Ural-Kuzbass: A Report from the Kuznetsk Coal and Metallurgical Joint-Stock Company to the Supreme Council of the National Economy of the RSFSR

Mikhail V. Mikheev
Candidate of historical sciences, senior researcher, Institute of History and Archaeology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Ekaterinburg, Russia
E-mail: mikheeviiiauroran@yandex.ru
ORCID: 0000-0001-8097-4953

Oleg V. Baev
Candidate of historical sciences, associate professor, Department of Russian History, Institute of History and International Relations, Kemerovo State University
Kemerovo, Russia
E-mail: baev-ov@rambler.ru
ORCID: 0000-0001-6280-5873

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UDC 94(571.17)”1918”
DOI: 10.58529/2782-6511-2022-1-2-122-137

ABSTRACT. The publication introduces into scientific circulation the report of the Kuznetsk Coal and Metallurgical Joint-Stock Company, sent to the Supreme Council of the National Economy of the RSFSR on May 18, 1918, as well as the note attached to it on the activities of the Company on the territory of the Kuznetsk coal basin in 1912–1917. On the eve of the First World War, the company began to develop coal in the Altai mining district. By the beginning of the revolutionary events, the Society managed to outline the prospects for creating a huge complex of coal and metallurgical production, which included smelting of the iron ores of the Telbes mine on the coking coals of the Kolchuginsky and Kemerovo mines. The Company actively carried out the construction of railways to solve these problems. The Board of the Company did not stop its work even after the October Revolution. In the spring of 1918, after the German occupation of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog coal and metallurgical region, which dominated Russia, the activities of the Company turned out to be in demand by the state. It was not nationalized and even received government loans in 1918 to continue its activities. In the conditions of the industrial crisis, the Soviet government considered projects for the reorganization of the territorial distribution of productive forces in the Asian part of Russia similar to the plans of the Society. By the end of the 1920s, these projects evolved into the Ural-Kuzbass project. Publishing document is of interest to specialists in the history of business, the Soviet and late imperial economy, and the civil war as well.

KEYWORDS: Western Siberia, Kuznetsk coal basin, mining Urals, Kopikuz, Supreme Council of the National Economy, Ural-Kuzbass, Trans-Siberian Railway

For citation: Mikheev M. V., Baev O. V. On the History of the Ural-Kuzbass: A Report from the Kuznetsk Coal and Metallurgical Joint-Stock Company to the Supreme Council of the National Economy of the RSFSR // Historical Geography Journal. 2022. Vol. 1. № 2. P. 122–137.

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