Sushko, E. O. THE ECONOMIC STATUS OF THE WORKERS OF MURMAN DURING THE CIVIL WAR ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE IMANDRA STATION. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2022;44(6):83–90. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2022.800


Russian history

THE ECONOMIC STATUS OF THE WORKERS OF MURMAN DURING THE CIVIL WAR ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE IMANDRA STATION

Sushko
E. O. 		Barents Centre of the Humanities – Branch of the Federal Research Centre “Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences”
Keywords:
station Imandra
salary
North of Russia
Civil War
gender inequality
economics		 Summary: The article is devoted to the financial situation of the workers and employees of the Imandra station during the years of the Russian Civil War and the intervention on Murman. Key questions: what legal acts established the salaries of workers, and how their wages correlated with the general socio-economic situation of the inhabitants of the Northern Oblast. The main sources of research are archival materials containing information on the salaries of employees who held various positions, reports on the average wages of women and men, minutes of meetings of officials discussing the economic problems on the Murman. For the first time, archival data are used that relate to the life of workers at the Imandra depot. It is concluded that at the Imandra station there was a significant gender inequality in wages for men and women, the average salary of men was almost twice higher than the average salary of women. Nevertheless, despite all the difficulties, the station workers had access to the free purchase of consumer goods, although the prices for these goods were relatively high. The author considers that one of the main problems of the population of the Northern Oblast is the rapid inflation of the ruble, which caused an increase in prices, while wages could not match them.



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