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

Of the ten customs locations noted on the atlas, five are on the Black Sea: Odessa, Ochakov, Nikolaev, Sevastopol, and Feodosiia. The others include St. Petersburg, three locations in Vilenskaia guberniia, and one in Lifliand.

This layer contains five confirmed canals and ten features that may, or may not, be canals as well. The five confirmed canals include the Mariinskoi, Berezinskoi, Ivanovskoi (pictured in the accompanying map), Oginskoi, and Ladoga canals. Together…

Russia was a riverine-boreal empire, replete with rivers ranging from the mighty Volga to the seasonal streams washing down hillsides in the Caucasian highlands. Rivers were a fundamental element of Russia's spatial profile, and they are a…

There were over 1,000 main post roads crossing the empire in the 1820s.

The Piadyshev atlas distinguishes between a post station found in avillage or town, and the sort of post station found out along the road (почтовая станица с двором). The atlas notes the presence of 3,567 post stations of the former variety, and…