Some aspects of the participation of the German capital in the Russian machine building industry in the early XX century

This article deals with some aspects of the German capital participation in the machine building industry of the Russian Empire. Early XX century became a new stage of the development of the mechanical engineering as the second stage of industrialization began. Establishment and development of the German machine building factories took place mainly in the late XIX early XX centuries. There were few German machine building factories in the preceding period; however, their turnover was insignificant. In 18 90s those individual enterprises began to transform into joint stock companies in order to develop and expand the production. Prosperous German financial and industrial companies played an active role in this reorganization. At the same time new German machine building factories were built in the new industrial areas of Russia as well as in those old areas, where industry had made great progress.