Дело Чехословацкой центральной экономической комиссии (по материалам конфискационного производства Владивостокской таможни)

Россия и АТР. 2022. № 3(117). С. 59–67.

Беляева Н. А.

The article is based on an episode from the history of the Czechoslovak Central Economic Commission at the final stage of the Civil War. Created as a government agency to solve a number of economic problems, the Commission, after the evacuation of the Czechoslovak corps from Vladivostok, was transformed into a partnership on shares and continued active commercial activity. Its activities attracted the attention of the Vladivostok customs, which convicted the company of violating customs rules - hiding goods from customs control, evading customs duties, trading in excisable goods prohibited for import. The main attention in the article is drawn to the confiscation proceedings of customs - the investigation of the case of smuggling on a particularly large scale. Based on the findings of the Vladivostok Customs Fund in the Russian State Historical Archive of the Far East, the vicissitudes of the resonant case that began in the summer of 1921 and ended in the fall of 1923 are shown. The course of the investigation, problems and obstacles arising in the course of it are analyzed. Based on the documents identified in the Vladivostok Customs Fund in the Russian State Historical Archive of the Far East (Fund 25), which were first introduced into scientific circulation, a full cycle of investigation of cases of smuggling was reconstructed on the basis of the current norms of the Russian customs charter. The problem of the economic activity of the interventionists and the struggle for compliance with the interests of the treasury, which sometimes did not coincide not only with the interests of individuals, but also with the interests of officials, was raised.

Keywords: Дальний Восток, экономическая деятельность, Russian Civil War, Гражданская война, intervention, economic activity, интервенция, Far East, confiscation proceedings, конфискационное производство