Political Exiles in the service of the Siberian Gold Miners in the XIX century

The article deals with the situation of political exiles in hiring on the gold mining company in Siberia before the revolution. The reasons a small number of exiles on the official positions, analyze their right and the economic situation in the gold fields. If the number of workers from the Exiles encountered a lot of different information, information about the convicts who have held official positions in the gold mining enterprises in Siberia, are virtually absent. Legislation of the Russian empire is not regulated the recruitment process itself, and hired for career service personnel positions gold mining companies. In this regard, gold-and their agents, taking the former exiles on the post office, had to act at your own risk. One of the first political exiles who had occupied the post office in the gold fields in Siberia, we can assume exiled to the edge of the December performances of participants in 1825 Decembrist such as P.A. Mukhanov, A. Poggio, S.P. Trubetskoy, A. Yakubovich and others, have been searching for gold in Siberia or have been employed by the local gold miners. Most of all political exiles were on the gold fishing gold mining company Nimanskoy. Of these, particularly P.D. Ballod, a man who has served seven years hard labor in Siberia, who began his gold miners career from a simple worker and became chief superintendent of all the work called the company. P.D Ballod, the service attracted a number of former political exiles (A.N. Bibergal, S.P. Bogdanov, P.I. Torgasev, M. Sazhin, S.S. Sinegub, etc.). could increase the amount of mined gold, and, consequently, increases the profits of the company. Political exiles were not only present in the gold mining enterprises in Siberia, but also played an important role in their activities. The impossibility at first sight of their duty of service personnel due to lack of necessary knowledge in the gold mining business, they made up for his personal qualities: honesty, integrity to discharge the duties and the desire to constantly learn. The desire to limit the contingent of political exiles in the official positions of industrial enterprises in Siberia and journeyed with the local authorities, reflected in a small number of people in the gold fields. Political exiles left their memories of working in the gold fields in Siberia, where you can see the unique information about the activities of the gold industry, the main industrial sectors in the region pre-revolutionary period.

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