PROBLEMS OF INTERAGENCY COOPERATION DURING ACCEPTANCE OF MILITARY PRODUCTS IN THE URALS STATE PLANTS IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE XIX CENTURY
A.A. Bakshaev
Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation
Keywords: product acceptance, mining plants, the Urals, military orders, military receivers, Military Department, mining administration, Mining Department, Ya. M. Bikbulatov, N. R. Mamyshev
Abstract
The article discusses the problems of interaction between the Military and Mining Departments during the military order implementation in the early XIX century. Applying the historical-genetic and problem-chronological methods the author identifies the causes of contradictions between the Ural enterprises leadership and military inspectors, who controlled the quality of military products at state plants and wharves of the Urals; shows the main stages of the conflict development. The author notes that contradictions between representatives of the Mining and Military departments during acceptance of military products arose early at the beginning of the XIX century. Military inspectors reported about the unsatisfactory quality of products of mining plants, as well as the violation of deadlines to deliver products. Mining officials, in turn, were dissatisfied with receivers’ slow work and a large number of rejected products. As a result, to solve these problems, production acceptance rules were elaborated. They were approved in 1804 and supplemented in 1808. These documents established the technical requirements for military products and regulated the procedure of inspectors and mining administration interaction. However, in ten years since their adoption, the number of complaints on actions of artillery officials grew. It was caused by a significant increase of military order volumes, and the plants could not implement them. In most cases, conflicts between the mining administration and inspectors were quickly resolved. However, in the early 1820s these contradictions escalated, when N. R. Mamyshev, the head of Goroblagodatsky plants, and Y. M. Bikbulatov, the main receiver, entered into a dispute over accepting shells and other military products. The disagreement between them was caused by unsatisfactory quality of mining plant products (iron, shells, guns), as well as the working procedure of military inspectors. The great scale of disagreement forced the leadership of the Mining and Artillery Departments to intervene and send their representatives to the Urals. The conflict was to resolved after the arrival of the Mining Department commission, as well as I. A. Neratov, Orenburg artillery district head, to the Urals in 1825.
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