FROM FUNCTIONAL TO PRODUCTION-TERRITORIAL PRINCIPLE OF WATER TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT (THE CASE OF THE VOLGA RIVER FLEET IN THE EARLY 1930s)
The article discusses the system of management of the water transport in the first half of the 1930s on the example of the Volga river fleet. The author concludes that the functional principle of management had serious shortcomings. The shift to the production territorial principle of management was to eliminate organizational and administrative difficulties. However it also made the work of the Volga River Steamship Lines even more difficult.