THE AGRICULTURAL SPECIALIZATION AREAS OF CRIMEA IN THE LATE XVIII - FIRST HALF OF THE XIX CENTURY: THE PROBLEM OF PROVIDING LABOR
The article deals with the important factors that contributed to the economic development of the Crimea after its entry into Russia. These are, in particular, the settlement of the Peninsula, the formation of the labor force in agriculture, as well as features of agricultural specialization of the regions of Crimea. The author analyzes the process of formation of the composition of state and serfs, the process of migration of foreign colonists to the Crimea, as well as the impact of these factors on the development of agricultural production on the Peninsula in the period under review. Attention is also paid to the peculiarities of agricultural specialization of the Crimea, the impact on these processes of natural and geographical, as well as economic factors. The specificity of agricultural production in different regions of the Crimea, in particular, steppe, foothill, South-Bank lands in the late XVIII century - the first half of the XIX century. It is concluded that the specialization of agricultural areas of the Crimea contributed to the development of commodity-money relations in the period under review.