Pomor Trade
F1. Maritime HistoryDefinition
Seasonal Russian White Sea trade with northern Norway.
The seasonal barter commerce between the Pomors, Russian White Sea coast dwellers around Arkhangelsk and the Kola Peninsula, and the fishing communities of northern Norway (Finnmark and Troms), from the eighteenth century to 1917. Pomors sailed lodya and shnyaka vessels west each summer, exchanging Russian rye flour, grain, rope, and timber for Norwegian cod and other fish. A simple pidgin, Russenorsk, grew up for the dealing. The First World War and the Russian Revolution ended it.
Source: Pomor barter trade, White Sea to northern Norway, eighteenth century to 1917; Russenorsk pidgin