Mapping colonial cities in Siberia and the Russian Far East in the first half of the twentieth century

米家 志乃布, KOMEIE Shinobu

doi:10.15002/00007584

In the history of Russian a cartographical research large-scale maps of cities has long been a topic of special interest for some historians and historical geographers. This paper examines the characteristics of and trends in the mapmaking creation of Russian colonial city in Siberia and the Russian Far East in the first half of the twentieth century. The author investigated many city maps collected by libraries and archives in Russia in order to understand how large-scale maps were made and used by city residents in the context of construction and development of colonial cities in Siberia and the Russian Far East. The list of these maps shows many large-scale city maps were published by the General Staff Office of the Russian army, city councils, and map publishers in some colonial cities under the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union from the nineteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century. In the mid-nineteenth century the Russian army had already surveyed residential areas in colonial cities in Siberia, and started to survey lands in new colonial cites in the Far East during 1890-1900. City councils and map publishers could make accurate maps based on these surveyed maps. After the Civil War in Siberia and the Far East, the map design was modified in some colonial cities. There were many public announcements in the surrounding central areas of the cities on the published maps. As a result, we could not look at some military facilities around the city in the Soviet period. This finding advances our understanding of ‘the silences on maps’ derived from J. B. Harley’s theory in historical cartography.

Mapping colonial cities in Siberia and the Russian Far East in the first half of the twentieth century

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