The article is devoted to the problem of studying the grain processing complex, the enterprises of the milling and cereal industry in the Tambov province in the 19th century, as well as the trade in bread products in the region. The relevance of this study is determined by the need to fill the source and historiographical gap in the study of the grain production complex, production facilities for processing and storing grain, enterprises for processing vegetable raw materials (flour mills, grain crackers, etc.), grain trade in the Tambov province in the XIX century. The results of the study can be useful for solving the challenges facing agriculture in our region at the present stage. The purpose of the study is to characterize the milling and cereal industry and trade in grain processing products in the Tambov province in the 19th century. Materials and methods. The source base of the research was made up of materials from the collections of the State Archive of the Tambov Region. The methodological basis of the study compiled: a general scientific method of analysis, a statistical method, a systematic approach, as well as the principles of objectivity and historicism. The scientific novelty of the work is related to the consideration of enterprises of the flour milling industry and trade in bread products in the region through the analysis of the formation of innovative forms of rationalism and entrepreneurship at the microlevel.
Key words: processing industry, processing of agricultural products, grain processing, flour and cereal industry, grain trade, Tambov province
9_АкользинаГИЦР-2025-№2-DOI-18-26Citation link: Akolzina M.K. Flour milling and grain processing industry and trade in grain processing products in Tambov region in the 19th century // Humanities researches of the Central Russia. – 2025. – №2. – P. 17-25.
DOI: 10.24412/2541-9056-2025-235-17-25