From the History of the Yekaterinburg Merchant Family of the Agafurovs: New Discoveries
https://doi.org/10.31162/2618-9569-2018-11-2-245-260
Abstract
The Agafurovs were the well established Russian Tatar merchants. Before 1917 the Agafurov family had significantly contributed to the cultural development of the city of Yekaterinburg and its Muslim community. The family was actively involved in charity work, financially supported the city «House of worship», the Russian-Tatar public library as well as several schools. The biographies of the some Agafurov family members are rather well researched on the basis of the sources preserved in the Ural libraries. However, researchers still lack a knowledge about what did happen to them since they have left Russia after the 1917 Russian revolution. The article is an attempt to fill in this gap. It deals with what happened to the Agafurov family members during their emigration to China (Harbin) in 1920 – 1940es. The present research is based on the hitherto unknown documents from the former Russian Emigrants in the Manchurian Empire Bureau, which are currently preserved in the State Archive of Khabarovsk Region (Khabarovskii Krai).
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Supporting agencies: financially supported by the RFFI (Grant no. 15-06-08541: A city in Eurasia its religious diversity: mapping and statistics (Yekaterinburg at the turn de siecle).
About the Author
Aleksey N. Starostin
Ural State Mining University, Yekaterinburg; The first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Cand. (Hist.), Associate Professor of the Department of Theology, Ural State Mining University; Associate Professor of the Department of Archeology and Ethnology, The first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin Ural Federal University
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Starostin A.N. From the History of the Yekaterinburg Merchant Family of the Agafurovs: New Discoveries. Minbar. Islamic Studies. 2018;11(2):245-260. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31162/2618-9569-2018-11-2-245-260
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