RGADA (Rosiiskii Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Drevnikh Aktov – Russian State Archive of Old Acts, Moscow), Hold. 192, Reg. 6, file 111: ‘Map of the part of Siberia south of Tobolsk in the upper reaches of rivers Irtysh, Ishim and Tobol, 18th century, photocopy, in Russian’.
Description:
Black and white photocopy. The map in two parts, folded in half, each part is wider than A2 (+6-7 cm; the size of the entire map is ~500*720 mm). Photocopy made with overlap, and the middle space of the map with Ishim River, Korkina sloboda, lake Uvat, and Kaurdatsky ostrog is duplicated. Usage list contains 7 people (2014); xerox copying for Fyodor Pashkov in 1997. Limits of the cartographic image: from the mouth of Iryum River (part of the image has cut off during photocopying, while the cartographer himself does not depict areas west of Tobol river lower the mouth of Iset’) to the Irtysh between Tara and Omsk fortress, from Tobolsk to Omsk fortress and the middle course of Ishim river (somewhere in the area of present-day Petropavlovsk).
Content of the map: rivers, lakes, vegetation (depicted with very typical for the first half of the 18th century symbols), settlements and fortifications, Old Ishim boder line is shawn by linear signs (two lines of fortifications?) with Ishim line main administration in Korkina sloboda. In fact, the map does not designate an abstract part of Siberia, but the main elements of the border line – a more appropriate title in achive Register would be “Map of the Old Ishim line”. Real map title is unclear: there is no title or header on the copy.
Other features. Longitude system: the entire map from 5°E (or possibly 4°E) to 15°E, Tobolsk (86°E according to modern system) at the 9°E, Omsk fortress at 14°E. There is no scale on the copy. The entire cartographic image fits within the limits of Old Siberia. Inscriptions: the font is closer to Semen Remezov’s or Dmitry Ovtsyn’s – semi-Church Slavonic cursive, significantly different from the 1760s map fonts, and often is difficult to read, possibly due to the quality of the photocopy. The approximate time of compilation is the 1730-40s, and might be more precisely determined by the history of the Old Ishim line. There are no obvious errors on the map; most likely, the compilers were local officers.
This electronic copy was made by Andrei Tyulpin in 2015.
Copy was ordered and now is published by Sergei Rasskasov, financed by Russian Foundation for Basic Research.
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