FROM TRADE TO MANUFACTURING. FROM THE HISTORY OF EMERGENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF LEATHER AND FUR INDUSTRY IN SEMIPALATINSK IN LATE XIX - EARLY XX CENTURY

Abstract

The article contains the results of studies of the history of emergence and development of leather-fur production in Semey (Semipalatinsk) in late XIX – early XX centuries and at the present time. The authors managed to find archival documents of the founders of this industrial sector of the end of XIX century and 20-30s of the XX century, and were able to trace how the leather-fur production develops at the present time.