The Echo of «Ilyimskaya Pashnya», or an Unrealized Project of Writing the History of the Economy of the Irkutsk Region

The note precedes the publication of a fragment of the P.K Sokolov’s article «A Brief sketch of the economy of the Irkutsk region», which was published on the pages of «Scientific notes of the Irkutsk Financial and Economic Institute» in 1957. The author considers this sketch as a possible result of an unrealized project of writing a two-volume history of the economy of the Irkutsk region by the efforts of the team of the institute. The project was created on the wave of interest in the economic history of the region, especially after the publication of V.N. Sherstoboev’s «Ilyimskaya Pashnya» (Ilyim plow). Brief scientific and biographical information about the author of the published material is provided in this report.