Features of the Development of Mining Activities in the XIX — Early XX Centuries

The article is devoted to the activities of the mining police of the early twentieth century in the area of mining mines in the East of Russia. The structure of the mountain police, the salary of police officers, the activities of the Cossacks are determined, the main powers are investigated. The mining police at the beginning of the twentieth century carried out activities to counter the sale of excisable and prohibited goods, during the First World War, the activities of the mining police mainly consisted in countering the theft of gold from mines.