The present volume analyzes the problems related to the role of Odessa port in the European grain trade system. and also elucidates conceptual parts of the Russian Empire integration into the European grain trade in the late eighteenth century - first half of the nineteenth century. The thesis analyzes the concepts existing in historiography on the role the domestic market integration processes in the states of the Old Continent, such as commercial capital, trade, credit and insurance institutions, transport networks, trade and customs regulations had on shaping of European grain trade system.