Promyshlennikiとは 意味・読み方・使い方

The Promyshlenniki were a group of Russian and native Siberian contract workers (from the Russian промышленность = a trade of business) drawn largely from the State serf and townsman class engaged primarily in the fur trade in Siberia and Alaska in the 1790s. Although not all fur hunters, (many were sailors, carpenters, and craftsmen) they were the backbone of Russian trading operations in Alaska. By the early 1820s, when the share system was abandoned and replaced by salaries, their status remained in name only; they became employees of the Russian-American Company and their duties and activities became less and less involved in the fur-gathering activities of the Company.