Vestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philologyVestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philology2542-04452712-8946Samara National Research University422110.18287/2542-0445-2016-22-2-25-33UnknownTEA TRADE IN THE UFA PROVINCE (SECOND HALF OF THE XIX – BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY)RodnovM. I.morenov.sv@ssau.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097MakarovaV. N.morenov.sv@ssau.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097Ufa Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of SciencesNational Museum of the Republic of Bashkortostan0102201622225330304201703042017Copyright © 2016, Rodnov M.I., Makarova V.N.2016<p>The main drink of the multinational population of the SouthernUrals in the XIX century was the tea brought from China throughSiberia. The main centers of the tea trade were first Menzelinsk,then Ufa, where large fairs were held. Tea was also sold on allsmaller fairs of the Orenburg province. At the end of theXIX century increased the supply of tea from the seaports, but atthe beginning of the XX century again dominated Chinese teafrom Siberia. The turnover of the tea market in the Ufa province<br />accounted for millions of rubles. By the beginning of theXX century, there was a system of regional tea trade, in rural areasit is mainly combined the sale of tea with sugar. Ufa became oneof the most important in the Russian center of wholesale teatrade. Here operated the largest tea trade firms of Vysotsky,Gribushina, Caravan and Kuznetsov, tea-packing factory wasopened.<br />It is shown that by the beginning of the XX century amongthe multinational population of Southern Urals strong and massculture of tea consumption was formed. The strength of this traditioneven tried to use at struggle with excessive drinking by openingpublic tea houses all over the Ufa province.</p>tea, trade, Southern Ural, Ufa.чай, торговля, Южный Урал, Уфа.[1. Babst I.K. Kiakhtinskaia torgovlia [Kyakhtinskaya trade]. In: Atenei, zhurnal kritiki, sovremennoi istorii i literatury [Athenaeum, criticism magazine, modern history and iterature].][(M.), 1858, Part 2. March and April [in Russian].][2. Gudkova Z.I. Predprinimateli Iuzhnogo Urala [Entrepreneurs of the Southern Urals]. Ufa, 2003 [in Russian].][3. Gurvich N. Menzelinskaia iarmarka 1872 goda [Menzelinsky Fair of 1872]. Offprint [in Russian].][4. Gurvich N.A. Iarmarki. K istorii iarmarok voobshche i k statistike iarmarok v Ufimskoi gubernii [Trade fairs. On the history of fairs in general and to the statistics of trade fairs in the Ufa province]. Ufa, 1884 [in Russian].][5. Dashkevich L.A. Kupecheskaia blagotvoritel’nost’ kak iavlenie obshchestvennoi zhizni ural’skogo goroda [Merchant charity as a social phenomenon of the Ural city]. In: Material’nyi faktor i predprinimatel’stvo v povsednevnoi zhizni naseleniia Rossii: istoriia i sovremennost’ (regional’nyi aspekt). Pod obshch. red. V.A. Veremenko [Material factor and entrepreneurship in the everyday life of the Russian population: Past and Present (regional aspect)]. Veremenko V.A. (Ed.). SPb., 2016 [in Russian].][6. Makarov V.N. Vospominaniia peterburgskogo kadeta, ili zhizn’ v provintsii v gody revoliutsii i Grazhdanskoi voiny [Memories of St. Petersburg cadet, or life in the province during the Revolution and the Civil War] in Sudeb sviazuiushchaia nit’. Kraevedcheskii al’manakh. Vyp. 4. Gl. red. i sost. G.A. Iksanova [Destiny connecting thread. Regional natural history almanac. Issue 4]. Iksanova G.A. (Ed.). Ufa, 2004 [in Russian].][7. Moskovskie vedomosti [Moscow Gazette], 1862, October, 10 [in Russian].][8. Mushkalov S.M. Gribushiny. Permskoi gubernii dinastiia [The Gribushins. Perm province dynasty]. Perm, 2007 [in Russian].][9. Orenburgskie gubernskie vedomosti. Ofitsial’naia i neofitsial’naia chasti [Orenburg Provincial Gazette. Official and unofficial part] [in Russian].][10. Petrov Yu.A. Moskovskaia burzhuaziia v nachale XX veka: Predprinimatel’stvo i politika [Moscow bourgeoisie at the beginning of the XX century: Entrepreneurship and politics]. Moscow, 2002 [in Russian].][11. Rodnov M.I. Prostranstvo khlebnogo rynka (Ufimskaia guberniia v kontse XIX – nachale XX vv.) [Space of the grain market (Ufa province in the late XIX – early XX centuries)]. Ufa, 2012 [in Russian].][12. Rodnov M.I. U istokov ufimskoi pressy, vkupe s progulkami po starinnoi Ufe i prostoram Bashkirii [At the root of the Ufa press, along with walks on the old Ufa and wide open spaces of Bashkiria]. Ufa, 2009 [in Russian].]