Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Colony

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The Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Colony (AIK Kuzbass; Russian Автономная индустриальная колония Кузбасс , АИК Кузбасс ), the origin of the present city of Kemerovo and the economy of the Kemerovo Oblast in Kusnezbecken ( Kuzbass ).

In the 1920s, foreign skilled workers were recruited to promote and liberalize the ailing Russian economy. This happened within the framework of the New Economic Policy (NEP) with the approval of the Bolsheviks and Lenins as an "economic experiment". It was directly subordinate to the Council for Labor and Defense in Moscow. The corresponding contract was signed on November 26, 1921, and approval was granted with the approval of the Politburo of the KPR (B) .

653 foreigners from over 30 countries worked in the AIK together with 5000 locals. The AIK was managed by the Dutch engineer Sebald Rutgers. The measures included the expansion and electrification of the coal mines, the construction of a coking plant and the development of infrastructure (housing estate, own farm). Until its closure (end of NEP, instead of central administration being introduced by Stalin ) the colony was an economically successful experiment, but then no longer politically opportune. On January 1, 1927, the colony was closed. The AIK is considered the forerunner of today's Kuzbassugol Group.

literature

Web links

  • Julia Landau We build the big Kuzbass! The development of mining in the Siberian province and its consequences for local society (PDF 21 pages 90 kB).

credentials

  1. WI Lenin supplementary volume Dietz 1971 p. 618
  2. ^ Soviet Studies: Social Science Articles, Issues 7-12, p. 909
  3. Thöns, B. Siberia ... p. 160f.