Duvankoy property map [ravines and hills]
subject: "Geometrical special plan of the Duvankoy dacha, Simferopol district, Tavrida province"
publisher: RGIA f. 1350, op. 56, d. 4
date: 1795

Duvankoy detail

Duvankoy area: detail from the 1817 Military-Topographical Map of Crimea

Dress it up in Resplendent Clothes (detail)
creator: Anne Bobroff-Hajal

Dorpat (plan)
description: This map can be found on page 69 of Baedeker's Handbook. This particular copy was made accessible by the Getty Research Institute and HathiTrust. Click here to read the catalog entry. The plans in this collection are annotated and tagged in the "Guidebook to a Lost Empire" project on the Canvas Empire site. Click here to go directly to the relevant project page.
creator: Heinrich Wagner & Ernst Debes (cartographers)
source: Karl Baedeker, Russia with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking : handbook for travellers (Leipzig, 1914)
publisher: Karl Baedeker
date: 1914
rights: The book containing the map falls within the public domain in the United States.
language: German
coverage: 58.38062, 26.72509

donets institute 1
description: 1. 25th Anniversary of the Donets Industrial Institute. The main building of the Donets Industrial Institute in Stalino, capital of Donbas.
coverage: Ukraine

Don Host
description: Summary of the culture, history, economy and geography of the province.
source: Meeting of Frontiers Digital Collections
publisher: Library of Congress; Russian National Library
rights: Access provided by the Library of Congress strictly for noncommercial educational and research purposes.
language: Russian
coverage: 1856

Dnepr basin, wiki-style
description: Scheme of the Dnepr River basin sourced from Wiki Commons
creator: SafronovAV

Districts
subject: administrative geography
description: The districts were tertiary administrative units. Each was nested within a secondary unit (guberniia, oblast', or irregular division). The Piadyshev Atlas describes 583 districts, including 24 vladeniia and okruga in Georgia, 7 nachal'stva in the Don Cossack lands, 6 tsinuty in Bessarabia, and 5 ober-hauptmannshafften in Kurliand.

District towns
subject: urban space
subject: administrative space
description: The Piadyshev Atlas contains attestations of 459 district (uezd) towns. This is a bit odd, given the fact that the atlas describes 591 districts. How might we make up - or at least explain the shortfall? To start, the 43 districts in the Grand Duchy of Finland, the 8 voevodstvos in the Kingdom of Poland, the 24 domains (владения) and districts (округа) of the (former) Kingdom of Georgia, and the 7 nachal'stva of the Don Cossack territory lacked district seats per se, as these regions had different administrative structures than the rest of the empire. That brings the target number down to 509, from 592. GIS software makes it incredibly easy to count the number of districts with at least one location designated as a district town: 444. In other words, the dataset is missing 66 district towns? Happily, that is not the case. You see, in most cases, a district that was home to a provincial seat (gubernskij gorod) did not have a separate district town. That means that we can add our provincial towns to the count. 55 districts were home to provincial towns (excluding Okhotsk and Kamchatka, which were not organized as regular provinces), but in 5 cases the atlas shows the presence of both a provincial and a district town. Eliminating those redundancies, and treating provincial towns as district towns, we can now cover 494 districts. What about the remaining 15? Careful scrutiny reveals that according to the atlas, precisely 15 districts lacked district towns altogether (3 in Iakutsk, 1 in Tavrida, 1 in Kavkazskaia oblast', 3 in Kharkov, 4 in Minsk, 3 in Vilensk). The math is a dizzying and the explanations myriad, but the result is that the dataset in fact contains what it ought to, given the parameters of the source from which it is drawn.
source: Geographical Atlas of the Russian Empire, 1820-1827 [Piadyshev Atlas]