Incorporation of foreign timber concessions in Soviet Russia in the 1920s

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The article based on legislative acts of Soviet Russia and unpublished sources of the State Archive of the Arkhangelsk Oblast, describes the features of incorporation of Russangloles, Russhollandoles and Russnorvegoles joint-stock companies, operating in the North of Russia in the 1920s. The article analyzes the Standard Agreement on Timber Concessions (1922), which was used by the Soviet state and foreign entrepreneurs in the process of drafting concession agreements in the timber industry and the Scheme for Constructing a Standard Agreement on Timber Concession. The study of these sources allows reconstructing the principle of forming contracts contributing to Russangloles, Russhollandoles and Russnorvegoles functioning.

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Oleg. V. Minchuk

Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov

Author for correspondence.
Email: o.minchuk@narfu.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4813-7191
SPIN-code: 1746-0222

Junior Researcher of the Department of Planning and Support of Scientific Research, Senior Lecturer of the Department of Social Work and Social Security of the Higher School of Economics, Management and Law of Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosova

54, bldg. 1 Severnaya Dvina emb., Arkhangelsk, 163002, Russian Federation

Daniil S. Zaozerskiy

N. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: d.zaozerskiy@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0290-4551
SPIN-code: 6226-7967

Researcher of the Laboratory of Bioresources and Ethnography, N. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research

20 Nikolsky lane, Arkhangelsk, 163020, Russian Federation

Aleksey S. Nikiforov

Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov

Email: a.nikiforov@narfu.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0636-3510
SPIN-code: 6942-4255

Leading expert of the Institute for Strategic Development of the Arctic of Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosova; Assistant at the Department of General History of Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosova, senior lecturer of the Department of Political Sciences, Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka)

17 Severnaya Dvina Emb., Arkhangelsk, 163002, Russian Federation

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