Book review: History of the Kazan Admiralty in documents and materials (Compiler, Author of the preface, notes, scientific reference apparatus I.Z. Faizrakhmanov; Kazan, 2023)

This review is devoted to a recently published collection of documents and materials related to the development of naval shipbuilding in Russia in the 18th – first third of the 19th century. The author and compiler of the collection, I.Z. Faizrakhmanov, has been successfully developing this issue for a long time. In the reviewed publication, he introduces into scientific circulation a large corpus of sources found in the funds of the Russian State Archive of the Navy (St. Petersburg). The documents in the collection reflect various aspects of the activities of the Kazan Admiralty, one of the leading centers of domestic shipbuilding. The enterprise played an important role in strengthening the country's defense capability, ensuring, in addition to the construction of warships in Kazan, the procurement of ship timber for other Russian shipyards. In addition, the Admiralty participated in the administrative management of the peoples of the Volga region who performed the lashman duty, was engaged in the registration and protection of forest lands, and the implementation of other tasks set by the state. The materials of the collection expand the range of sources on the history of the Volga-Kama region in the Petrine and subsequent eras, are of interest to historians, lawyers, philologists, and all those interested in the history of their native land. For citation: Nogmanov A.I. Book review: History of the Kazan Admiralty in documents and materials (Compiler, Author of the preface, notes, scientific reference apparatus I.Z. Faizrakhmanov; Kazan, 2023). From History and Culture of Peoples of the Middle Volga Region. 2024, vol.14, no.4, pp.177–182. https://doi.org/10.22378/2410-0765.2024-14-4.177-182 (In Russian)