Formation and development of the Bromley brothers' mechanical engineering enterprise in the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries

Annotation

Turning to the pages of the history of Russian entrepreneurship during the period of industrial growth allows us to more deeply understand and evaluate a wide range of issues in the history of this period. The article explores the formation and development of a mechanical plant founded by the Bromley brothers, which by the end of the century had become the leading industrial enterprise in Russia, demonstrating the results of reforms, industrial revolution and rise. The authors saw the task of reconstructing the organizational, legal and industrial transformations of the Bromley brothers' enterprise over the long period of time, using historical and chronological methods. The basis for this was the revealed historiographical gaps in the study of the breeders' “case”. The article demonstrates the evolutionary development of the Bromley brothers' industrial entrepreneurship from the traditional management of a merchant family business to the highest organizational form of a capitalist enterprise - a joint-stock company with the involvement of bank capital from one of the leaders of the Russian financial market. Unpublished documents of the Central Archive of Moscow were used for this purpose. The introduction of technical innovations, the formation of the enterprise structure based on modern principles for that time, the use of legislative opportunities allowed entrepreneurs to increase the scale of production in a short time, expand the product range, and capture a significant market segment. The article traces the “fate” of the Moscow industrial giant after 1917, the use of the economic potential by the Russian Empire by the Soviet government. As a result of the research, the authors conclude that conditions for the development of large industrial enterprises were created in the country. Significant processes of the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries are visible in the plant's activities, such as the modernization of the economy, monopolization of enterprises, and the creation of the mechanical engineering industry. The industrial achievements of the plant, which has been repeatedly awarded the highest state awards, were accompanied by an increase in the social and business status of its owners - from a merchant to the honorary title of a manufacturing adviser.

Keywords

• history of Russia at the turn of the 19^th-20^th centuries
• industrial boom
• monopolization
• industrialization
• mechanical engineering
• Bromley brothers
• industrial exhibitions
• railway construction
• production of mechanical mills
• the “Krasny Proletariy” plant
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Contribution of the authors

Orchakova L. G. – scientific supervision, development of the research concept, work in the library, revision of the text, final conclusions; Pshebyshevskaia N. V. – work in the library, archive, processing and presentation of statistical data, source materials; writing the source text of the article, data aggregation; Ryabov V. V. – scientific supervision, justification of the purpose of the article, data aggregation, final conclusions.

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