Professional hunters in historical Siberia and Russian America
Advance of the promyshlenniki to the East
The promyshlenniki (Russian: промышленники, sg. промышленник, promyshlennik)[a] were Russian and Indigenous Siberian artel members, or self-employed workers drawn largely from the state serf and townsman class who engaged in the Siberian, maritime, and later fur trades.[1]
Initially, the Russians in Russian America were Siberian fur-hunters, river-merchants, and mercenaries, although many later worked as sailors, carpenters, artisans, and craftsmen. The promyshlenniki formed the backbone of Russian trading-operations in Russian Alaska. Some of them worked on preliminary request contracts, including for the Russian-American Company, and their duties and activities became less involved in the company's fur-gathering activities.
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^Fisher, Raymound H. (1943). The Russian Fur Trade, 1550-1700. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 29–30.
The promyshlenniki (Russian: промышленники, sg. промышленник, promyshlennik) were Russian and Indigenous Siberian artel members, or self-employed workers...
Company and established the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska. Russian promyshlenniki (trappers and hunters) quickly developed the maritime fur trade, which...
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discovery of the sea otters sparked the great rush of fur-seeking "promyshlenniki" which drove the Russian expansion into Alaska. Aleut (Unangan) people...
The Alutiiq people (pronounced /əˈluːtɪk/ ə-LOO-tik in English; from Promyshlenniki Russian Алеутъ, "Aleut"; plural often "Alutiit"), also called by their...
were paid in coin. In early Siberia, service-men and promyshleniks (promyshlenniki) were the two main classes of the Russian population. Service-men were...
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often additionally enslaved Aleut men. In the 18th century, Russia promyshlenniki traders established settlements on the islands. There was high demand...
island's documented human habitation as well as ecological destruction. Promyshlenniki began to island-hop across the Bering Sea to the Aleutian islands and...
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modern-day State of Alaska in 1959. Russian America was settled by promyshlenniki, merchants and fur trappers who expanded through Siberia. They arrived...
people who first came about through the intermingling of Sibero-Russian promyshlenniki men with Aleut and Eskimo women in the late 18th century and assumed...
of sizable fur bearing populations by Bering drew the attention of promyshlenniki previously engaged in the Siberian fur trade. Based out of the Siberian...
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months before wrecking on Amchitka Island. With Aleuts and Russian promyshlenniki from another wrecked vessel, the group remained on the island for three...
sea-otter resources of the northern Pacific Ocean in the 17th century. The promyshlenniki then worked their way eastwards from Kamchatka along the Commander and...
Oregon Country." The vessel had a complement of 22, including Russian promyshlenniki, an Englishman and seven Alutiiq. On 13 November [O.S. 1 November],...
North America, had the right to employ serfs. In Russian Alaska, the promyshlenniki forced Aleut and Alutiiq men to hunt sea otters as part of the maritime...
sails through the strait that now bears his name. 1607 – Mangazeyan promyshlenniki and traders reach the lower Yenisei, establish Turukhansk, and ascend...
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