Pankin Pavel Vladimirovich RussiaSaratovSaratov State University, 83 Astrakhanskaya St., Saratov 410012, Russiaa post graduate student of the history of Russia chair 213pankinp@mail.ru Author's articles ABOUT THE ECONOMIC SITUATION OF THE URAL COSSACK ARMY IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY The beginning of the XXth century as the critical moment in the history of the Ural Cossacks: the positing of the problem