The history of creation and development of the financial institutions in the Kazan province in the second half of the 19^th century and at the beginning of the 20^th century

Abstract

© 2020, Rossiiskaya Akademiya Nauk, Institut Istorii (Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of General Hist. All rights reserved. Based on archival materials, the article analyzes the role of the provincial institutions of the Kazan province in the implementation of the financial policy of the government. The stages of the creation and development of financial institutions in the Kazan province are traced. The activities of the Kazan Treasury Chamber, the Kazan Provincial Treasury, the Kazan Provincial Control Chamber, the Kazan Provincial Excise Office are analyzed. It is concluded, that in the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, credit institutions of the Kazan province played not only a financial, but also an important social role, contributing to the integrated development of the region's economy.