Verkhneudinsky cooperative partnership "Economy" - one of the largest cooperatives in Siberia and Transbaikalia at the beginning of the XX century.
| "Saving" | |
|---|---|
| Type of | Cooperative |
| Base | 1913 |
| Abolished | 1923 |
| Reason for Abolition | Reorganization |
| Successor | Central Committee "Unity" |
| Location |  Russian Empire : Verkhneudinsk |
| Key figures | G. I. Kamynin |
History
In 1913, on the initiative of the working Verkhneudinsky railway depot G. I. Kamynin, the all-class cooperative society “Economy” was organized. In 1921, the manager of the cooperative was G.I. Kamynin.
City consumer societies "Economy" opened in Troitskosavsk , Mysovsk , Barguzin and Petrovsk-Zavodsk .
By 1917, Ekonomiya owned a network of shops and stores in Verkhneudinsk and its suburbs. Agencies were opened abroad: in Maimachen and Urga (Mongolia), in Tianjin , Harbin and Shanghai (China). The cooperative conducted cultural and educational work. On August 6, 1918, the partnership opened an outpatient clinic for its members [1] .
In January 1914, in Verkhneudinsk, on the initiative of the Consumer Society, at the congress of cooperators of Western Transbaikalia, the Pribaikalsk Commercial and Industrial Partnership of Cooperatives ( Pribaikalsoyuz ), a cooperative management body, was created.
During the First World War, at the shops of the Verkhneudinsky Society of Consumers “Economy” (on Bazarnaya Square in the house of the heirs of Frolov and on the corner of Kyakhtinsky and Zheleznodorozhny Streets in the house of Belov), the city's essential goods warehouse was opened. Their sale was carried out at the procurement value with an accrual of not more than 5% to reimburse the company “Savings” expenses for the hiring of employees, premises, drying, shaking of products. The city government allocated a room for warehouses for free.
At the end of 1916, the cooperative opened a bakery, later acquired a groats mill, a leather-chrome, soap factory, sawmill, a cutting area in the village of Ganzurino , a canning factory in Posolsky , a dairy farm and a pig farm in Verkhneudinsk. In 1916, the cooperative opened its own sausage production with the goal of "improving quality and price." Cooperative sausage went on sale in February 1917. “This immediately reduced prices in private shops by 20 kopecks. from the pound. Soon, private producers will be forced to improve the quality after the cooperative ” [2] .
At the end of 1918, an underground committee of the RCP (b) was created in Verkhneudinsk. The committee consisted of G.I. Kamynin. In “Economy” an underground cell of the Bolsheviks was created. The underground work was attended by: member of the cooperative G. G. Kamynin, chairman of the cooperative L. Nepomnyashchy, members of the board Petrov, M. Monoilenko, N. Isakson, workers N. Stolbov, Kalinichenko, P. Kychakov and others. In the confectionery factory Yakushenkov, Luba Malvina, Yankova [3] .
In 1923, "Savings" was transformed into the Unified Consumer Society.
Community Activities
Verkhneudinskaya "Economy" transferred all profits from outsiders to the cultural fund - to create a People’s House, and then in favor of the proposed People’s University of Eastern Siberia [4] .
In 1920-1922, "Economy" and the Baikal Union supported the work of the Baikal People's University (PNU) FER [5] .
Famous employees
- Vagzhanov, Alexander Petrovich - worked as a watchman in the store of Nizhny Berezovka .
Addresses in Ulan-Ude
- st. Lenin , 23 - the house of L. Samsonovich. In 1919, the building housed the cooperative society "Economy", an underground Bolshevik organization worked. The monument of architecture .
- st. Sotnikovskaya, 3 - the building where A.P. Vagzhanov, chairman of the underground committee of the Bolsheviks of the Baikal region, worked in the store of the cooperative society "Economy". Monument of history.
Partnership Bonds
In 1921, "Savings" issued settlement marks ( bonds ) with a face value of 5 cents to 10 rubles. On some in the center there was a round seal with the inscription "RSFSR Ganzurinsky factories" [6] .
See also
- Centrosoyuz
Notes
- ↑ Baikal life. No. 41, October 21, 1918, p. 1
- ↑ Co-operative Word, Chita, No. 11, 1917. p. 5
- ↑ Eve. Kuznetsov-Voronov “The Bolshevik underground of Baikal region in the struggle for the Soviets” // Buryat-Mongolskaya Pravda, No. 151, June 1933
- ↑ Unification. 1915. No 7. p. 13
- ↑ Guide to the collections of the National Archives of the Republic of Buryatia 1917-2007 Ulan-Ude, 2008. p. 218
- ↑ P.F. Ryabchenko A complete catalog of paper banknotes and bonds of Russia, the USSR, the CIS countries. (1769-1994) - "Sofia" Kiev, 1995.
Literature
- Alekseeva V.K. Cooperative movement in Siberia (end of XIX - beginning of XX century). Novosibirsk: Publishing House Novosib. state University, 1993.
- Basaev G. D., Khutashkeeva S. D. Cooperative movement in Western Transbaikalia on the eve and during the First World War // Humanitarian vector. 2012. No. 2 (30), pp. 105-109
- G.M. Zaporozhchenko ECONOMIC ACTIVITY OF URBAN CONSUMER COOPERATIVES OF SIBERIA AT THE END OF THE XIX - THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY // Bulletin of Tomsk State University. Story. No. 1 (9), 2010, pp. 43-49
- G.M. Zaporozhchenko FORMATION OF THE ECONOMIC MECHANISM OF THE CITY CONSUMER COOPERATION OF SIBERIA AT THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY // Bulletin of Tomsk State University. 2013. No. 373. P. 88–91