Hunting Activities of Russian Pomors on Spitsbergen in the 18th Century: New Evidences in Transnational Perspective

Margarita Dadykina (), Alexei Kraikovski () and Julia Lajus ()
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Margarita Dadykina: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Alexei Kraikovski: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Julia Lajus: National Research University Higher School of Economics

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Abstract: The Russian hunters used to kill animals in the Arctic long before the 18th c. However, the Petrine modernization has changed their life strongly. The Government has put the new goals in order to make the Russian blubber industry some kind of a driving force for the Europeanization of the enormous region of the Russian North. However, what were the economic and political contexts for that? And could this governmental project be successful at all?

Keywords: Spitsbergen; Archangelsk; monopoly; blubber; international market. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2015
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Published in WP BRP Series: Humanities / HUM, December 2015, pages-28

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