Specialists of the Zlatoust Catholic community in the South Ural industry and railway transport in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Abstract

The article develops an insufficiently studied socio-religious aspect of the history of industry and transport in Russia. The authors investigate the participation of the Zlatoust Roman Catholic Church's parishioners in the work of mining, metallurgical and railway industries in the South Ural region and assess the involvement of Catholics in the processes of industrial development this region in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The article recreates the Roman Catholic segment of the local labor market and traces the professional biographies of many Catholic specialists on the basis of reference publications (directories) and church documents (parish registers).