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The atlas describes 24 mines in Omsk, Tomsk, and Enisejsk.

The atlas shows 148 factories (fabriki and zavody) spread across 25 provinces. The distribution is far from uniform: 50 factories are located in Perm alone.

If you go through this layer in detail (either on the Imperiia Map or in Dataverse) you…

The atlas legend does not differentiate between types of monastic institutions. According to the toponyms, 24 of the 74 sites in this layer are sketes (скит), 12 are hermitages (пустынь), and the rest are garden-variety monasteries. Together they…

This is one of the most surprising map layers. Of the 59 sheets of the Piadyshev atlas, only one includes mosques in its legend. If you were to take the atlas as an authoritative source for the cultural geography of the empire, you would have no…

Of the 122 fortresses shown on the atlas,

Two fortified lines appear on the Piadyshev atlas: (part of) the Ukrainian line, and the Caucasian line.