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Rivers of the Russian Empire 1827 (GARE)
12026-03-13T14:36:30-04:00Anastasiia Pereverten1dee3aa5075817eb04077dbae88a1030d7d4ebb491Rivers were the lifeline of the Russian Empire and they are a core feature of the landmark Geographic Atlas of the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Poland, and the Grand Duchy of Finland (1827). Over the past few months, Imperiia Project Innovation Fellow Anastasiia Pereverten meticulously recorded the names, which are given in both Slavic and Latin scripts, of all labeled rivers across 59 map sheets (see the red lines). The blue lines depict rivers left unnamed in the atlas. The extraction process took 40 hours, involved transcribing Cyrillic and Latin names, and reminded our whole team of the value of human expertise and creative problem-solving. Ana’s work opens up new possibilities for research in hydrography, environmental history, and imperial knowledge production. Stay tuned for the publication of the full dataset!plain2026-03-13T14:36:30-04:00Anastasiia Pereverten1dee3aa5075817eb04077dbae88a1030d7d4ebb4
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