The Salt Industry in the Kama Region as the Sphere of Competence Provincial Governor in the 17th and 18th Century
The article discusses the role of the governor in the development of the salt industry of Prikamye in the 17th and 18th centuries. Salt fishing has become one of the most important sources of replenishment of the state treasury in the 17th and 18th centuries. In the Kama region, in contrast to Siberia, salt-making was private, and the governors were required by the central government to control the institution of salt wells and collect tax revenues. Sometimes the relationship between salt miners and the governor was mutually beneficial, but often representatives of the local salt production preferred not to share their own revenues with the state. This applied to the large industrial dynasty of the Stroganovs, and the monasteries with their own monastic salt works.