Russian Bank for Foreign Trade

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RUSSIAN BANK FOR FOREIGN TRADE, a private joint-stock bank. Founded in 1871, the bank shared the 3d and 4th places with Azovsko-Donskoy Bank before World War I of 1914-18. It had 76 branches. The major activities of the bank included financing domestic and foreign trade. The bank also had a significant influence in the sugar industry and financed other industries as a junior member of various bank groups. The bank cooperated closely with the St. Petersburg International Bank from 1881. It had close links to German capital. The bank had its own building at 32 Bolshaya Morskaya Street constructed by architect V. A. Schreter. It was nationalized after October 1917.

References: Бовыкин В. И., Петров Ю. А. Коммерческие банки Российской империи. М., 1994. С. 142-147; Петербург: История банков / Б. В. Ананьич и др. СПб., 2001. С. 146, 200, 238-239.

V. S. Solomko. Schreter Viktor Alexandrovich
Bolshaya Morskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 32
Петров Ю. А., Бовыкин В. И. Коммерческие банки Российской империи. М., 1994
Петербург: История банков / Б. В. Ананьич, С. Г. Беляев, З. В. Дмитриева и др. СПб., 2001 Azovsko-Donskoy Commercial Bank
St. Petersburg International Commercial Bank
1871