Export-oriented state industry of Russia in Modernizing Process at the End of 17th - the First Half of the 18th Century

The article is devoted to the research of the main tendencies of development of state potash industry in Russia, which was in fact a peculiar export-oriented branch of industry in the period of Peter's modernization. The article studies the tendencies of development of potash industry and reveals its determining factors; measures for increasing the production efficiency at the state manufactures taken bu the Russian government, as well as the ways of production promoting on the foreign market.

state industry, export-oriented, modernizing process, Russia, potash industry, foreign market