Minaeva, T. S. ORGANIZATION OF IRON EXPORT IN RUSSIA DURING THE REIGN OF PETER THE GREAT // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2020. Vol. 42. No 4. P. 93–98. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2020.487


To the 350th anniversary of the birth of Peter the Great

ORGANIZATION OF IRON EXPORT IN RUSSIA DURING THE REIGN OF PETER THE GREAT

Minaeva
T. S. 		Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M. V. Lomonosov
Keywords:
Peter The Great and his reforms
Russia in the XVIII century
iron production
export
organization of foreign trade
foreign entrepreneurship		 Summary: There was a gradual folding of the foundations of the organization of iron exports to Western Europe on the basis of the development of metallurgical production in Russia in the first quarter of the XVIII century. The government of the country had to solve the problem of entering the European market with a new domestic product and overcome product competition from more industrially developed countries. For modern Russia, the problem of industrial development and export expansion is one of the most important, so the study of historical experience allows us to avoid repeating mistakes, clearly represents the driving forces of economic processes and allows us to determine the strategic directions of state policy. The purpose of the article is to study, using the historical and systematic method, the organization of iron exports during the reign of Peter the Great. The scientific novelty consists in the fact that this is the first work in which, based on the analysis of historical sources and data from domestic and foreign historiography, the elements that form the basis of organizing the export of ferrous metal during the reign of Peter the Great are comprehensively considered. Despite the active construction of state-owned and private steel plants, the government did not think about measures to organize foreign trade in iron for a long time. Foreign entrepreneurs engaged in the production and sale of metal, as trade agents of the Russian government, have made an important contribution to the promotion of Russian metal on the European market. It was only at the end of the reign of Peter I that pricing policies were developed, the needs of foreign consumers were taken into account, and protectionist customs duties were introduced.



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