Artel (Russian: арте́ль) is a general term for various cooperative associations in Russia, historical and modern. A cooperative (also co-operative or co-op) is an association of persons who join together to carry on an economic activity of mutual benefit, in an egalitarian fashion. ...

Historically, artels were semi-formal associations for various enterprizes: fishing, mining, commerce, of loaders, loggers, thieves, beggars, etc. Often artels worked far from home and lived as a commune. Payment for job done was distributed according to verbal agreements, quite often in equal shares. Often artels were seasonal. Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish. ... The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein, or (coal) seam. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Loader can refer to: Loader (equipment) Loader (computing) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A logger is someone who is employed in the logging industry to cut down and transport trees to market. ... Theft (also known as stealing) is, in general, the wrongful taking of someone elses property without that persons willful consent. ... Beggars in Samarkand, 1905 Begging includes the various methods used by persons to obtain money, food, shelter, or other necessities from people they encounter during the course of their travels. ... A commune or comune is a system of social and economic organization which involves the common ownership of resources and/or shared obligations. ...

Gradually formalized types of artel emerged, with internal hierarchy and legal agreements.

In modern Russia there is no legally defined business term "artel" as a type of an association, however some companies use the word "artel" in their name, especially in areas traditionally handled by artels, such as gold mining or fishing. Gold mining consists of the processes and techniques employed in the removal of gold from the ground. ...

See also

• Artel of Artists