PROBLEMS OF TRADE RELATIONS OF THE SVERDLOVSK REGION WITH ENTERPRISES OF NORTH KOREA IN 1958
Industrial enterprises of the Sverdlovsk region began to establish trade relations with foreign countries in the second half of the 1940s, and in the 1950s, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea became one of the countries of the socialist camp that was supplied with equipment produced by a lot of factories and works of the Soviet Union, including the Sverdlovsk region`s, working in the field of engineering industry, chemical and electrical industry, ferrous and nonferrus metallurgy, wood and paper industry and many other industries. These relations kept maintaining with varying success until the collapse of the Soviet Union. This article discusses such cooperation in 1958, i.e. in the first full year after branch ministries were disbanded in the USSR in 1957, and instead on their bases Councils of National Economy (CNE) were established. The statistics of mutual trade dynamics between factories of the Svverdlovsk region and industrial enterprises of North Korea in 1958 is analyzed, and the complex of problems associated with the implementation of export deliveries in the mentioned period is considered. This work was supported by the Core University Program for Korean Studies through the Ministry of Education of the Republic of the Korea and Korean Studies Promotion Service of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2019-OLU-2250001).