Valery Anatolyevich Skubnevsky as a Historian of the Entrepreneurship in Siberia

Abstract

The article is devoted to the distinguished historian of business in Siberia — Valery Anatolyevich Skubnevsky. An attempt to analyze the scientific activity of the scientist contains a range of publications. History of entrepreneurship in Russia is actively studied since the 1990s. Great success in the study of the history of regional entrepreneurship was made by the historians of Siberia. Over the last two decades there have been formed research centers, scientific schools on the issue; numerous conferences have been held, a series of collections of scientific articles, monographs, encyclopedias has been published. Time has come to give a historiographic review of the history of the Siberian entrepreneurship. In the study of historiographical development perspective, it is important to appeal to the personalities of the scientists who made the most significant contribution to the development of the theme. One of the most significant figures of modern historians, who have devoted their scientific works the history of merchants and entrepreneurs of Siberia, is Valery Anatolyevich Skubnevsky. V.A. Skubnevsky has done a lot for development of historical science in Siberia and in Russia. Studying the history of Siberian entrepreneurship scientists come a long way and today we can observe a large number of publications, the diversity, the significant increase of the source base and documents the search for new methodological approaches. V.A. Skubnevsky as a major researcher, managed to accumulate a wealth of factual material, to analyze the structure and number of entrepreneurs of Altai and Siberia. It should be noted that scientist lit almost all the layers of the Siberian business, considered an economic activity and sociocultural image of merchants.

DOI 10.14258/izvasu(2017)5-23