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To the Question of Activity of the Kabardian Public Sum in the 50th of the 19th Century


(Kabardino-Balkarian Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences)

Annotation. Article is devoted to a research of features of functioning of the basic of the Kabardian public sum in the 50th of the 19th century. In work powers of officials concerning management of the Public sum are defined, characteristic of the bases
of carrying out financial transactions is given, the main channels of replenishment and the direction of expenditure of means of the Sum are revealed and described, the questions connected with preparation of the normative legal act about management of the Sum are studied. The attention is paid that at this time the Sum already represented an important financial instrument in the organization of management, ensuring activity of power institutions and development of infrastructure of the region. It is established that the Sum was replenished at the expense of means from the confiscated or ownerless things sold by an auction, duties on export of the wood
on sale, penalties for crimes. It was determined that the funds of the amount were spent on ensuring the activities of the Kabardian Temporary Court and some of its employees and the costs of maintaining a school in Nalchik for the children of princes and nobles.
We studied the preparation and adoption of the Regulation on the management of the Kabardian public amount, adopted in 1859.
It is concluded that in the 50s. XIX century the Kabardian public amount was the main financial instrument in the management of the Center for the Caucasian Line and the main mechanism for the incorporation of the peoples of the region into the financial and economic system of the Russian Empire.
Kabardian Public Sum, Financial Institute, Caucasian Line Center, Kabardians, Balkarians

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