TOPICAL ISSUES OF STUDYING THE HISTORY OF STATISTICAL COMMITTEES OF THE SOUTH OF RUSSIA IN THE XIX CENTURY

The article studies the formation of a statistical committee in the south of Russia. The general and the special in the history of education of statistical committees are analyzed, the professional contacts of various statistical committees are studied, the place of statistical committees in the general managerial vertical of state statistics bodies is examined. A comparison is made with scientific and historical societies, it is stated that the local statistical committees fulfilled the functions of provincial scholars of archival commissions. The author attempts to outline the process of establishing such statistical committees, trying to reveal the reasons for this state of affairs. The author develops the problem of forming archives with local statistical committees, the archives were replenished with current documents of statistical files, as well as with historical documents received from private individuals, and also includes targeted search work on the part of the statistical committees themselves. It is noted that the study of the archive of the Don regional statistical committee as a whole helps to better understand not only the method of collecting historical documents at home, but actually move them to different storage locations, as well as establish new facts on the history of archive business in the nineteenth century. The author traces the local specifics of organizing committees by the example of other provinces. The establishment of new statis tical committees or conversion of old ones into new ones is studied. It is noted that in 1861, Kuban and Terek Cossack troops were approved posts on statistics. Another aspect of local specifics was the need to take into account the context of relations with local peoples that in many respects experienced the events and consequences of the Caucasian war. The author tries to establish internal regularities in the chronology of the activity of the statistical committees of the Cossack regions. In conclusion, it is asserted that since the 1860s the provincial statistical committees , and later the academic archival commissions - created the original scientific humanitarian infrastructure of the country, the living organism of historical science. The statistical committees on a number of indicators have surpassed the regional study of research approaches to the organization, becoming centers of local intelligentsia, regardless of their professional activities and social status.

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