Industrial Production in Tuva: From Antiquity to the Early 20th Century
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https://doi.org/10.25178/nit.2026.2.5Keywords:
Tuva, industrial production, socioeconomic development, industry, metallurgy, mining, history of TuvaAbstract
The article examines the processes of formation and development of industrial production in Tuva in the pre-Soviet period. The authors employ systemic, interdisciplinary, historical-economic, and comparative-historical research methods. Understanding industrial production as the transformation of raw materials into finished products (items) through any type of processing, the authors argue that its history in the region begins in antiquity, in the 3rd millennium BC. They propose that up to the 1830s the processes of industrial production in Tuva can be regarded as a single evolutionary trajectory, and they link the end of this stage to the arrival of Russian capital and entrepreneurship in the region, which fundamentally altered the situation. The focus is placed on the impact of Russia on the development of industrial production in Tuva in the period from the 1830s to 1921.
The source base of the study consists of the findings of specialists in the history of Tuva (historians and archaeologists), as well as documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the Republic of Tuva, relating to the period when Tuva was under the protectorate of the Russian Empire.
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Oorzhak V. O., Asonychev A. A. and Badarchi Kh. B. Industrial Production in Tuva: From Antiquity to the Early 20th Century. New Research of Tuva, 2026, no. 2, pp. 72-81 (In Russ.). DOI: https://doi.org/10.25178/nit.2026.2.5
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Valeriy O. Oorzhak Tuvinian Institute for Exploration of Natural Resources, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Candidate of Economics, Associate Professor, Leading Researcher, Laboratory of Regional Economics, Tuvinian Institute for Exploration of Natural Resources of Siberian branch of Russian Academy of Sciences.
Postal address: 117a Internatsionalnaya St., Kyzyl, Russian Federation.
Email: v.oorgak@yandex.ru
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Anton A. Asonychev Tuvan Institute for Humanities and Applied Social and Economic Studies under the Government of the Republic of Tuva
Chief Specialist, History sector, Tuvan Institute of Humanitarian and Applied Socio-Economic Research under the Government of the Republic of Tuva.
Postal address: 4 Kochetova St., Kyzyl, Russia, 667000.
E-mail: anton.onb@yandex.ru
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Kherel B. Badarchi Tuvinian Institute for Exploration of Natural Resources, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Candidate of Economics, Associate Professor, Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Regional Economics, Tuvinian Institute for Exploration of Natural Resources of Siberian branch of Russian Academy of Sciences.
Postal address: 117a Internatsionalnaya St., Kyzyl, Russian Federation.
Email: herel_badarchi@mail.ru
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