The entrepreneurial companies in the Russian Empire in the late XIX - early XX centuries. were formed on the basis of traditional and new aspects of the economic structure. The subject of the study was the entrepreneurial companies of the Tobolsk province in the late XIX – early XX centuries. The purpose of the article is to highlight some aspects of the development and activities of distilleries in the Tobolsk province in the late XIX – early XX centuries). In preparing this work, we used the modeling method, i.e. collection of complete information and “construction” of the form of activity for the distilleries of individual entrepreneurial companies of the Tobolsk province. The results of the study show that the process of attracting entrepreneurial companies in the development of the alcohol industry. Entrepreneurial companies were created, as a rule, after the unification of the owners of industrial enterprises. Such an association predetermines the direction of entrepreneurial activity of capitalist associations, which does not always have a positive effect on the further development of production. Attention is paid to the most important aspects of the activities of enterprises: the number of workers, the equipment systems used, the volume of products produced, the characteristics of the most prominent founders of entrepreneurial companies and etc.