Who did not go to sea, he did not small to God. The commercial colonization of the Murmansk coast and the new land

The monograph is devoted to the history of the economic development of the areas of the European Arctic - the Murmansk coast and the New Earth Archipelago - monasteries and peasants of Pomerania in the 16th - 18th centuries. In the work on the basis of a wide range of documentary sources, factors were investigated that caused the process of commercial colonization of these territories: the interconnection of the economic development of the Murmansk coast and the new land by peasants and monasteries of Pomori was considered, the territorial, social and age composition of its participants was characterized, the role of peasant cooperation and such Social Organization, as an artel of industrialists, traces changes in the state of fishing on the coast of the Barents Sea in the XVIII century. Under the influence of a new state policy due to modernization processes.
The study also discusses aspects of the daily life of industrialists of the Murmansk and Novo -Zemelsky crafts.
The book is designed for specialists in the history and source of the Russian North, as well as for a wide range of readers