AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY FORMATION IN RUSSIA (1896-1914)
The article of E.Y. Prokofyeva "Automobile industry formation in Russia (1896-1914)" examines the issues of the beginning and developing of automobile industry in the system of domestic social and economic relations of the end of XIX - beginning of XX century in comparison with the Western European tendencies. The author distinguishes prerequisites of automobile industry formation, provides a historical retrospective review of economic basis for the industry, and states the role of an incipient industrial vector in an overall economic structure of the country.