Scientific Journal of KubSAU

Current processes in socio-economic life of our state make contact to the historical experience accumulated by Russia for centuries. The rapid development of the state, modernization of all spheres of public life at the beginning of XXth century still interfaced with a mass of adverse events, balking a dynamic development of the state. In the Siberian upcountry the situation was exacerbated by a number of “chronic” issues such as a high percentage of the exiles among the local society, the total corruption of the bureaucracy, etc. The article deals with the socio-economic status of the Yenisei province in the early twentieth century. Analysing the state of agriculture and individual industries, existing in the region, it identifies the challenges that they faced. The author cites some quantitative characteristics that reveal the real state of affairs in such crucial sectors of the economy such as agriculture, animal husbandry. Moreover, the article marks issues concerning carrier’s trade and other specific crafts. As a research source was taken the information provided by the “Siberian observer” magazine – the edition, which bore clearly oppositional character and did not have the goal to put the best face forward the existing situation in the region, and consequently – the actions of the local authorities