Participation of long-distance seafarers in informal economic practices in the 1970s and 1990s: public and private
Pavel Ovchinnikov, an Research Assistant at our laboratory, a master's student of the Sociology of Public and Business Sphere master’s program, spoke at the International Scientific Conference "Commodity – money – commodity? Patterns and paradoxes of trade in the USSR and beyond".
At the conference Pavel presented the results of a qualitative content analysis of the memoirs of the sailors of the Far Eastern Research Hydrometeorological Institute, who in the conditions of "closed" Vladivostok in the 1970s and 1990s brought imported or scarce goods from abroad.
Continuing to explore the seafarers' community as a special privileged group of suppliers, Pavel described the practices of sailors, told about the goods that sailors brought and resold at home, as well as how they influenced the culture of the port city.
