Danish merchants in Siberia at the end of 19<sup>th</sup> - beginning of 20<sup>th</sup> century
The Danes played a significant role in Siberian business circles of the 19th - 20th century. In their sphere it was possible to distinguish butter exporters, merchants of diary farm produce and agricultural machinery, owners of plants not related to butter making, and clerks. A typical phenomenon was the promotion from an employee or a commission-agent to an independent businessman. The specific Danish features of business included: 1) a typical Danish business combination: buying butter - trading agricultural machinery; 2) the element of pioneering, treating Siberia as America - a foreign country promising quick enrichment. Cultural adaptation of the Danes in Siberia had a contradictory character. The sources demonstrated an example of S.H. Randrup. Having married a Russian woman, having studied the Russian language quite well, he still remained a Dane in socio-cultural sense. His business and near-business relations were concentrated in the circle of other Siberian Danes. He adapted well enough as possessing comfortable socio-cultural conditions for business development but not as taking roots.