th c., when it was abandoned in the Medieval Russian urban centres for a long time.
Our research demonstrates that the impulses in ironworking sphere traced over the long history of the Finno-Ugrian tribes, as a rule, were not developed by the local milieu. The Finno-Ugrian world looks rather conservative in the sphere of production.
Proceeding from the vast analytical data that characterize blacksmith's craft of different peoples in different epochs, we can state that technical and technological stereotype used in this production is quite a stable element of culture. To our opinion, the possibility of its change in pre-state formations is primarily connected with integration of alien cultures' bearers into aboriginal society. As for state structures, economic factors play decisive role and presuppose certain system of production organization (differentiation, regulation, institution of apprenticeship, etc.) and distribution of products.
Translated by L. I. Avilova
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