Ландарь И.А

In this paper, based on the documentary sources the actual state of land tenure and land use in the Transbaikalian Cossack army in the late XIX century is examined, the basic problems in this area are determined. The discrepancy existed in fact and the legal norms of the land ownership and the land use in the Transbaikalian Cossack army is shown. The author concludes that the process of land use in the army occurred spontaneously and was governed mainly by the Cossack community.

In the article the policy of the state for the land-utilization of Cossacks of the eastern outskirts of Russia is examined. An actual state of the land tenure of Cossacks is analyzed, deficiencies of the communal landownership are shown. The basic reasons for reduction in the profitableness of Cossack economies at the turn of XIX-XX are shown.