Mordovian territory in the system of Russian trade-economic links (XVI - XVIII centuries)

The paper is devoted to the development of external economic links on the territory of Mordovian region in the 16th - 18th centuries. The author researches the main tendencies of foreign trade relations, nomenclature of exported goods on the material of Western Europe sources and customs books data. Special attention is given to the trade ways crossing this territory which were an important factor of the region economic development and mainly determined the scale and trends of foreign trade relations.