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The fur trade was socially, economically, and also physically beneficial to Siberia. The fur traders brought new people to Siberia in search of furs, and these trappers, traders and explorers would connect with the natives. For example, Russian men brought to Siberia for the fur trade would often meet and marry native women there.
The main trading market destination was the German city of Leipzig. [2] Kievan Rus' was the first supplier of the Russian fur trade. [3] ... Russian fur trappers, ...
The Shelikhov-Golikov Company (SGC) was a Russian fur trading venture, founded by Irkutsk entrepreneurs Grigory Shelikhov and Ivan Larionovich Golikov in 1783. Formed in Eastern Siberia during the 1780s along with several competing companies, the SGC had operations in Kurile Islands and areas that later became Russian America .
Advance of the promyshlenniki to the East. The promyshlenniki (Russian: промышленники, sg. промышленник, promyshlennik) [a] were Russian and Indigenous Siberian artel members, or self-employed workers drawn largely from the state serf and townsman class who engaged in the Siberian, maritime, and later fur trades.
Russian fur-hunters began island-hopping along the Aleutian Islands. The Russian America Company was formed in 1799 with Okhotsk as its Siberian base. Okhotsk Abandoned: From at least 1719 it was clear that the Okhotsk route needed to be replaced if possible. Okhotsk was a poor port and the route to it the most expensive major route in Siberia.
The fur market in Irbit (1900) The Irbit fair (Russian: Ирби́тская я́рмарка, Irbitskaya yarmarka) was the second largest fair in Imperial Russia after the Makariev Fair. [1] [2] It was held annually in winter in the town of Irbit, trading with tea and fur brought along the Siberian trakt from Asia. [3]
In 1774, the Spanish followed the Russian fur traders. [8] British crews started trading in the furs of the north-eastern Pacific in 1778, [9] [10] and American traders arrived in the area in 1788, [11] focusing on the coast of present-day British Columbia. The trade boomed around the beginning of the 19th century. A long period of decline ...
The fur trade is the worldwide buying and selling of fur for clothing and other purposes. The fur trade was one of the driving forces of exploration of North America and the Russian Far East. [37] The fur trade has long-lasting effects, specifically on the Natives in North America and the populations of fur bearing animals worldwide.