The Imperiia Project: a spatial history of the Russian Empire

The difference between North and South

Stretched from end to end, Russia’s boundary line would have wrapped around the Earth’s equator three times. The empire was vast. Distance mattered.

The average absolute distance from a forest belonging to the Baltic fleet to a shipyard on the Baltic Sea was 566 miles; the forest-to-shipyard distance for the Black Sea Fleet was 380 miles.

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