Fur trade the "yasak" (or iasak) tax on natives and the 10% "Sovereign Tithing Tax" imposed on both the catch and sale of fur pelts. Fur was in great demand in Western Europe, especially sable and marten, since European forest resources had been over-hunted and furs had become extremely scarce. Fur trading allowed Russia to purchase from Europe goods that it lacked, like lead, tin, precious metals, textiles, firearms, and sulphur. Russia also traded furs with Ottoman Turkey and other countries in the Middle East in exchange for silk, textiles, spices, and dried fruit. The high prices that sable, black fox, and
5026 Martes 0.24 and an inclination of 4° with respect to the ecliptic. A first precovery was taken at Palomar Observatory in 1953, extending the body's observation arc by 34 years prior to its official discovery observation at Klet. "Martes" has been characterized as a carbonaceous C-type asteroid by PanSTARRS photometric survey. "Martes" forms an asteroid pair with , and was part of the 35 sample asteroid pairs in Petr Pravec's study "Formation of asteroid pairs by rotational fission", published in the journal "Nature". Between 2008 and 2010, several rotational lightcurves of "Martes" were obtained from photometric observations. Lightcurve analysis gave a