Features of Social Deviations in the Gold Mines of Yenisei Siberia and Ways To Overcome Them in the 1830s–1890s

The paper, based on archival unpublished sources, examines the deviations prevailing in a complex social environment in the gold mines on the example of Yenisei Siberia in the pre-revolutionary period.The "gold rush" has worsened the criminal situation in the region under study.The statistics of mass robberies and murders grew in proportion to the growth of gold mining in the region.Despite the laws passed by the central government, the vast territory, thousands of kilometers away from the capital, lived according to its often wild rules.The "Prospector's fart" turned into trouble most often for the lucky one, luck smiled at very few people.The most difficult working conditions of the gold workers undermined their health.However, the general depressing state of medicine (the lack of a sufficient number of hospitals and medical personnel) deprived the workers of this chance for respite.Documents from the Siberian archives indicate that the situation periodically escalated, taking on a serious criminal character.Pre-revolutionary historians especially describe the mass unrest of workers in the Yenisei province in the taiga gold mines in the pre-revolutionary period.