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Cossack villages (станици) share symbology on the Piadyshev atlas with the minor town (местечко). The atlas attests to 72 Cossack villages spread across the territory of the Don Cossacks and Astrakhan province.

Original full title: Tractus Borysthenis, vulgo Dniepr et Niepr dicti : à civitate Czyrkassi ad ostia et Ilmien lacum, per quem in Pontum Euxinum se exonerat

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 map can be found on page 545 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…

I am reasonably sure that this is the only place in the empire where a currier had to dismount and climb into a boat (here to cross the Kerch Strait) in order to continue along his route.