Northeast Siberia Company

The Northeast Siberia Company (NESC) was an American company established in 1902 by a retired Russian colonel named Vonlyarlyarsky,[1] but composed primarily of Chicagoans.[2] The company's chartered purpose was to prospect for gold in the Chukotka region of Russia.

In 1906 it was reported that the NESC was forbidden by the Russian government from any activities other than mining, such as fur trading.[2] The company may also have been involved in illegally trading alcohol.[1] Also in 1906, American miners working for the NESC reportedly discovered a steel and leather mail coat, along with a helmet and coins which may have been left by Cossack explorers in the mid-1600s.[3]

In 1909, the company sent out a dispatch that there was a prison riot in Yakutsk resulting in the deaths of at least four guards, and that escaped prisoners were attempting to flee to Alaska.[4]

The company's concession in Russia was ended in 1910.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Sablin, Ivan. "TRANSCULTURAL INTERACTIONS AND ELITES IN LATE PRE-SOVIET AND EARLY SOVIET CHUKOTKA, 1900-1931". Sociostudies. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
  2. 1 2 "American Fur Traders Barred Out". The Search-light. 27 (9): 4. March 3, 1906. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
  3. ↑ Underwood, John Jasper (March 1913). Alaska, an Empire in the Making. Dodd, Mead & Company. p. 353. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Prisoners in Siberia mutiny and then flee". San Francisco Call (Volume 106, Number 30). Associated Press. June 30, 1909. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
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