The role of handicrafts in the development of trade relations in the eastern bukhara principalities

The article investigates the administrative structure of the Emirate of Bukhara, the economic situation, the economic activities of the population of the East Bukhara principality, trade relations, types of markets, handicraft production and handicraft associations, aspects of crafts related to the economic, natural and geographical environment. At the end of the 19^th and beginning of the 20^th centuries, issues were analyzed that led to the growth of the population in cites, the strengthening of commodity-money relations, the development of trade and crafts. Due to the growing demand of the population for handicrafts and the availability of raw materials, they began to specialize in wide variety of industries in different regions. Craft associations existing in the region have their own traditions and rituals that have been formed over the centuries.