DYNAMICS OF THE RUSSIAN-СHINESE TRADE IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE XIX CENTURY
The article considers the structure and dynamics of the Russian-Chinese trade relations, the emergence and subsequent liquidation of the Kjahtinsky monopoly and the diminishing role of trade through Siberia. Only at the close of the XIX century the export of goods of Russian factory industry to China began to step up as a result of the introduction of the Great Siberian highway. With its definitive construction the Russian-Chinese commercial relations entered the new period of their development