Azov-Don Bank

Azov-Don Bank was one of the largest -stock commercial banks in the Russian Empire. It was founded in 1871 in Taganrog located on the shores of the Sea of Azov. It became a major vehicle for French investment in the Russia Empire prior to the First World War. In 1905-6 French banks bought ten thousand shares in this bank.[1]^:16 In 1912 The Azov-Don Bank invested in the French Banque des Pays du Nord, with Boris Kamenka being appointed to the latter's board.[2]

Azov-Don Commercial Bank Building, 1913

The Bank was nationalized shortly after the October Revolution by a decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in December 1917.[3]

References

Brumfield, William Craft; Anan’ich, Boris V.; Petrov, Yuri A. (2001). Commerce in Russian Urban Culture, 1861–1914. Baltimore: Woodrow Wilson Center Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-6750-7.
Cameron, Rondo; Bovykin, V. I. (1992). International Banking 1870-1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-534512-4.
"Россия и мир: экономическая конъюнктура 1911–1914 гг". Исторический факультет. Исторический факультет Московского государственного университета имени М.В.Ломоносова. Retrieved 26 April 2020.

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[BAP-1] Brumfield, William Craft; Anan’ich, Boris V.; Petrov, Yuri A. (2001). Commerce in Russian Urban Culture, 1861–1914. Baltimore: Woodrow Wilson Center Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-6750-7.

[Cameron_&_Bovykin-2] Cameron, Rondo; Bovykin, V. I. (1992). International Banking 1870-1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-534512-4.

[economic_conditions-3] "Россия и мир: экономическая конъюнктура 1911–1914 гг". Исторический факультет. Исторический факультет Московского государственного университета имени М.В.Ломоносова. Retrieved 26 April 2020.