promyshlennik
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Siberia
- Russian America
- Relations with Aleut and Alutiiq people
- Lifestyle
- See also
- Notes
- References
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The promyshlenniki (, промышленник, promyshlennik) were Russian and Indigenous Siberian artel members, or self-employed workers drawn largely from the state serf and townsman class who engaged in the Siberian, maritime, and later fur trades.
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