Barnaul School for Studying the History of Entrepreneurship at the Turn of 20th – 21st Centuries

The article is devoted to the formation and development at the turn of the 20-21 cen-turies of the Barnaul Scientific School studying the history of entrepreneurship in pre-revolutionary Siberia. Modern historiography has accumulated a big actual material. Historians published monographs, thematic collections, articles, abstracts, reviews, reports, bibliographic pointers, encyclopedic and reference publications, candidate and doctoral dissertations are defended in the Councils on various issues of this area. Domestic historiography of the history of merchants and entrepreneurship Siberia is represented by a significant number of works of historians of the region. The purpose of the article is to investigate the formation and development of the Barnaul scientific school of the history of pre-revolutionary entrepreneurship as a single process of knowledge production, during which traditions are preserved, new issues are being studied, approaches to solving scientific problems. The author used methods of historical research, with the use of the principle of historicism, which allowed to apply historical and logical, historical system methods. The regional-oriented approach made it possible to most fully explore the peculiarities of the Barnaul Research School. Based on a comprehensive analysis, the importance of a scientific school reflecting the development of Russian science is shown. The article identifies the main milestones and the preliminary results of the work of the Barnaul school are summed up. The conclusions were made that in the study of the history of merchants and entrepreneurship, Barnaul historians have achieved certain success, while working out an extensive historiographic base. The interaction of researchers of different generations allows you to exist a scientific school for a long time. The main traditions of the school are: scientific, scientific and methodical, scientific and pedagogical activities; Values remained at the continuity level “Teacher – Student”. As a result of the study, the paradigm principles of the existence of the Barnaul school studying the history of entrepreneurship of pre-revolutionary Siberia are formulated: humanism as a landmark in the organization of the school; priority topics of the history of entrepreneurship; restability by the scientific community of research results; dialogicality as ensuring dialogue, discussion and complementarity.