Abstract
Thearticlepresentsa historicaland economicanalysisof the peculiaritiesof agriculturaldevelopmentinthe Syrdaryaregionof the Turkestanregionof the earlyXXcentury.An assessmentof the degreeof studyof historiographyonthistopicis alsogiven.There isreasonto believethatthisissuehas beenwidelyconsideredinRussianhistoriographyoverthe pasttwodecades.Monographs,textbooksanddissertationshave beenwrittenonthistopic.However, a numberof aspectsof the internalstructureof the problemrequirecarefulconsideration.Inparticular,weunderstandthatthe factorsof adaptationanddevelopmentof the localclimateby immigrantsfromthe Europeanpartof the RussianEmpirerequiresystematicattention.Inthis regard, ourresearchworksoughtto payspecialattentionto the lifestyleof immigrantsinthe newnaturaland climaticenvironment.The workof the establishedgovernmentcommissionsonthe effectivedevelopmentof agriculturein the regionandthe regulationof resettlementconditionsfor migrantswas alsoanalyzed.The tsaristadministrativesystemfollowedthe colonialprincipleinthe policyof supportingthe cultivationof agriculturalspeciesinthe region.Railways,watermillsandthreshingmachines werebuiltforthispurpose.Fromourpointof view,oneofthe mainurgentproblemsisthe economicpeculiaritiesof the waysof purchasingandsellingagriculturalproducts.Thisis duetothe factthatit canbe assumedthatlocaldekhanssufferedfroma numberof consequencesdueto thelackof theseeconomicmechanisms.