Plan of the town of Lugan’, Orlov Province (PSZ Town Plans)

Plan of the town of Lugan’, Orlov Province

urban history

The plan is humble and scant, and this makes sense: Lugan was called into existence in 1778. What one day had been a small settlement became a "town" overnight. The transformation lasted only four years. By 1782 it was a village once more and even that seems to have been a stretch: its diminutive population left during the Second World War.

Polnoe Sobranie Zakonov Rossiiskoi Imperii (sobranie pervoe), Kniga chertezhei i risunkov (plany gorodov) [Complete Collection of Laws of the Russian Empire (first collection), Book of drawings and illustrations (town plans)], Sanktpeterburg: v Tipografii II Otdeleniia Sobstvennoi E. I. V. Kantseliarii, 1839.

Copies of the Book of Drawing and Illustrations can be found in several academic and research libraries. The Russian National Library provides open access to a digitized version.

Data extraction, translation, and annotation by Sierra Nota, Alex Dennett, and Kelly O'Neill

Russian

1780

Lugan’ (Лугань)

Orlov Province (Орловское наместничество)

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