Zinovev's Atlas of the Russian Empire. From 1915.
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| Date: | 1915 |
| Author: | M. Zinovev |
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A beautiful map of late-Tsarist St. Petersburg [google map] Irkutsk (thanks, readers) from Zinovev's Atlas of the Russian empire.
From the collection of the Irkutsk State University Library. If any native Russian speakers would like to help out with translation, I'd love to know more.
It’s only a city map. I expected an atlas, accordig to the title of the article.
I could help you with translation!
Top left corner:
Legend
existing blocks,
designed blocks,
water,
meadow,
swamp,
gardens,
cemetry,
Siberian Railroad line,
area of the 1st police department,
…
residental area,
highway,
rural road,
railroad,
Justice of the peace (I’m not sure that this is the proper translation)
Scale below the Plan title
1 inch on the map equals to 125 fathoms (1 fathom = 7 foots http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsolete_Russian_units_of_measurement)
Top Center – Plan description
1. The house of Irkutsk governor general
2. The chancellery of Irkutsk governor general
3. Monument of Imperator Alexandr III.
4. Golda lloy manufacture
5. Junkers academy of Irkutsk
6. Kharlampievskaya church and Trapeznikov’s almshouse
7. Irkutsk blind care and school for the blind
8. Mariinskaya nurse community
9.Troitskaya church
10. City elementary school
11. Chudotvorskaya church
12. Customs
13. Kuznetsov brewery house
14. Kurbato and Rusanov bath house.
15. City almshouse
16. The 1st police and fire department, City police department
17. Irkutsk administrative board and free reading room.
18. Post office
19. Foster’s home
20. School ‘Kinder garden’
21,23, 28, 31, 32, 34, 35,37, 39, 51, 60, 62, 69, 81, 83, 86, 92, 93, 98, 99, 104, 110, 113, 116, 119, 121- 123, 129 – different kinds of schools and colleges
22, 91 – shops
24, 42, 43, 44,45 – banks
25, 28, 29, 31, 35, 48, 61, 68, 88, 89, 96, 109, 115, 124 – churches,synagogue, mosque
26 – veterinary,
27 – treasure house
30, 55, 106, 112, 114 – parks, gardens
38, 95 – library
40, 49, 85, 103, 120 – hospital
41, 52, 57, 59, 63 – shelter-care facilities
46 – court
47 – telegraph office
50, 74, 87, 105 – home for the homeless, almshouses
53, 58, 64, 75, 90 – police and fire department
54, 82, 101, 102, 125 – military institutions, barraks
55, 70, 71, 73, 76 – state buildings, administrations
72 – pawnshop
78 – 80 hotels
84 – museum
94 – observatory
107, 118, 126, 127 – brewery houses
108, 130 – saw mill
111 – mill
117, 133 – prison
128 – soap factory
131 – winery
133 – butchery
Thanks Nadiia, I just now saw this.
Sorry to disappoint you, guys, this is not St. Petersburg but Irkutsk itself: see words “План города Иркутска” in the top rigth corner.
Yep, Dmytro is correct. “План города Иркутска” translates literally as “Plan of the city of Irkutsk”
Many thanks, Dmytro. I’ve corrected it.