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Officials didn't have elaborate plans for this town on the Samotkan. A note in the legend puts the number of houses at 487.Orientation: south (north is bottom left)Does a River Run Through It? Not through it, but the Samotkan flows next to it.

Rostov is situated at the mouth of one of the great Russian rivers (the Don), so it comes as no great surprise that its urban landscape is highly diverse - with everything from banya to brick factory, parish school to lazaretto. Its most unique…

Pavlograd was nothing but orderly (according to the plan).Orientation: northTake Note! 1) There is a silk plantation outside the western wall; 2) There are Christian and Jewish cemeteries north of town; 6) The butchery is, as usual, off on its own in…

Novomoskovsk contained 746 houses when this plan was filed in 1823. It was subject to incursions by floodwater in the south and forest in the west, and should you want to exit town heading eastward toward Pavlograd, mind that you don't eat a big…

Nakhichevan is situated on the right bank of the Don River. (The river runs westward along the south side of the town.) To the west are lands belonging to the town of Rostov (and the road to the Rostov fortress). To the east are the lands of the Don…

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This plan was drawn up 8 years after the first plan of Bakhmut in the collection. There are a number of changes, but among the most significant is the attention paid to the ravines running perpendicular to the Bakhmut River. They are nothing more…

The core features of Bakhmut are arrayed along a line running east-west through the center, perpendicular to the river. The Orthodox churches are located outside this central space of bureaucracy and trade.Orientation: east (north is on the left)Take…

This eye-catching plan is dominated by the fortress at the center and the trio of roads running out of town.Take Note: 1) The legend mentions the presence of 351 homes; 2) the neighborhood of Voznesensk lies north of the Sukhaia Moskovka River and…

Yekaterinoslav is situated on the right bank of the Dnieper (Dnipro) River. Main roads lead south to Kherson and west to Kremenchug but within the town itself the main thoroughfare is a park- and tree-lined boulevard running west/east.Read more on…