The establishment of soviet fishing industry in the Azov-Kuban region in the 20-ies years of XX century

In the article the establishment of Soviet fishing industry in the Azov-Kuban region in the 20-ies years of XX century has been studied. The difficulties and contradictions that are typical for the fishing industry of that period have been determined. The impact of the state management methods of fisheries has been discovered. It is shown on the basis of archival documents that the same economic processes that occurred in the economic sectors of Soviet Russia of that period are typical for the fishing industry of the Azov-Kuban region. Methods of «war communism» had a negative impact on the fishing production activities. The situation was partly corrected by the introduction of the New Economic Policy (NEP), however, it was soon brought to a close, being replaced by collectivization came in the fishing industry of the Azov-Kuban region that had its positive and negative consequences.