USSR bond loan in Czechoslovakia (1935)

The article examines the contacts between the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia in the economic sphere in the 1930s. In the context of accelerated industrialization, the Soviet leadership faced the task of obtaining targeted loans. The article analyzes the experience of the USSR issuing a bond loan guaranteed by the government of the Czechoslovak Republic. The source base was documents stored in the Russian State Archive of Economics. These documents are devoted to the history of issuing government loan bonds intended to pay for orders from the trade mission of the USSR to Czechoslovak firms. Conclusions. The bond loan of 1935 played an important role in the development of trade between the two countries. The loan agreement marked the beginning of a new stage in the history of Soviet-Czechoslovak relations during the interwar period.