List of issues > Series «History». 2024. Vol 49
Smuggling of Precious Metals in the 19th Century:
Conditions, Specifics and Methods of Counteraction
in the Kyakhta Border Area
Author(s)
N.-Zh. B. Dorzhiev
Abstract
The article analyzes the reasons for the intensification of the smuggling of precious metals
in the Kyakhta border region in the 19th century. This period is characterized not only by political
instability in the Qing Empire, but also began in the second half of the 19th century. The “gold rush”
in Eastern Siberia, which imposed its own characteristics on the dynamics of illegal import and export of precious metals in the region. In this situation the government of the Russian Empire with the
help of legislative acts, tried not only to stabilize cross-border trade, but also to adjust the activities
of the Kyakhta customs to combat the smuggling of precious metals.
About the Authors
Dorzhiev Naidan-Zhargal Budazhapovich,
Postgraduate,
Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan
Studies SB RAS,
6, Sakhyanova st., Ulan-Ude, 670047, Russian
Federation,
e-mail: g1997gle@mail.ru
For citation
Dorzhiev N.-Zh.B. Smuggling of Precious Metals in the 19th Century: Conditions, Specifics and Methods of Counteraction in the Kyakhta Border Area. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series History, 2024, vol. 49, pp. 38-46. https://doi.org/10.26516/2222-9124.2024.49.38 (in Russian)
Keywords
Kyakhta, trade, customs, smuggling, precious metals, legislation.
UDC
94(571.5)+94(510)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26516/2222-9124.2024.49.38
References
- Golovachev P.M. Sibir: priroda, lyudi, zhizn [Siberia: nature, people, life]. Mоscow, Tipografiya tovarishchestva I.D. Sytina [Printing house of the I.D. Sytin partnership], 1905, 400 p. (in Russian)
- Grulev M.V. Zapiski generala-evreya [Notes of a Jewish general]. Moscow, Kuchkovo pole Publ., Hyperborea Publ., 2007, 270 p. (in Russian)
- Kalmina L.V., Plekhanova A.M. Zolotodobycha v Zapadnom Zabajkal'e v 1880-1920-e gody: regionalnaya specifika [Gold mining in Western Transbaikalia in the 1880s-1920s: regional specifics]. Gummanitarnyj vektor [Humanitarian vector], 2015, no. 3, pp. 29-35. (in Russian)
- Kirillova S.V. Besposhlinnaya i kontrabandnaya torgovlya Rossii s Kitaem i Mongoliej v XVII–XVIII vv. [Free illicit trade of Russia with China and Mongolia in the 17th–18th centuries]. Bulletin of Tomsk State University, 2018, no. 53, pp. 138-141. (in Russian)
- Korsak A.K. Istoriko-statisticheskoe obozrenie torgovyh snoshenij Rossii s Kitaem [Historical and statistical review of trade relations between Russia and China]. Kazan, the publication of the bookseller Ivan Dubrovin, 1857, 445 p. (in Russian)
- Crete N.K. Budushchnost kyahtinskoj torgovli [The future of the Kyakhta trade]. St. Petersburg, Type. The Artillery Department of the Ministry of War, 1862, 101 p. (in Russian)
- Lantsova Yu.N. Kitajskie i korejskie rabochie v zolotopromyshlennosti Zabajkal'skoj oblasti (seredina XIX nachalo XX vv.) [Chinese and Korean Workers in Transbaikalian Gold-mining (The middle of 19th – the beginning of 20th centuries)]. Uchyonye zapiski Zabajkalskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta [Scientific papers of the Trans-Baikal State University], 2009, no. 3 (26), pp. 126-130. (in Russian)
- Noskov I.A. Kyakhta. Irkutsk, V tipografii shtaba vojsk [In the printing house of the army headquarters], 1861, 28 p. (in Russian)
- Noskov I.A. Kyahtinskaya torgovlya za poslednie vosem let [The Kyakhta trade over the past eight years]. St. Petersburg, Type. tov. Public benefit, 1870, 18 p. (in Russian)
- Stakheev D.I. Za Baikalom and Amure [Beyond Lake Baikal on Amur]. St. Petersburg, Printing house of K. Wolfe, 1869, 347 p. (in Russian)
- Shirapov A.A., Plekhanova A.M. “Serebryanyj put” iz Evropy v Aziyu: rol Kyahtinskogo otdeleniya Russko-Kitajskogo banka v eksporte dragocennyh metallov v Cinskuyu imperiyu [“Silver Road” from Europe to Asia: Kyakhta Office of the Russo-Chinese Bank in Precious Metals Exports to the Qing Empire]. Mongolovedenie [Mongolian studies], 2023, no. 1, pp. 83-94. (in Russian)