Петрова О.А.

Social security is presented in the form of the system including the state, church-parish and socially-charitable help. Its formation on a boundary of centuries is characterized.

The article deals with the issues of organization of the economic activity of migrant peasants in the Far East of the Russian empire. The authors give a detailed description of the government steps in the economic and legal sphere, analyze distinctive features of different forms of migrants’ economic activity. Special prominence is given to the problems of land tenure in the Far Eastern region.