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Grand Historical Atlas of Belarus
Volume Three of the Grand Historical Atlas of Belarus covers the period when the Belarusian territories were a part of the Russian Empire, i.e. between 1772 and February 1917. It is limited to the developments occurred in the lands that had already been under the Russian Empire’s control.
The Atlas comprises 6 sections and a historical and geographical index.
The sections in Volume Three provide an overview of different aspects of the historic period stated above. A number of maps reflect military and political events and transformations in the administrative division of the Belarusian territories. Two more sections show the social and economic development and spiritual and cultural life of the society. A separate section presents benchmarks in the social and political life and in the national movement.
A selection of replicated old maps and drawings that were created mainly by Russian cartographers reflects the process of the Belarusian territory cartographic assimilation by the new authorities.
The 1915 issue of the Special Map of European Russia that is also known as Strelbitsky’s map is used as a general map. The map is published with a slightly enlarged scale, 1:300 000, that was used for general maps in the first two volumes of the Atlas.
The general map is complemented with a comprehensive list of settlements in the Belarusian provinces at the beginning of the XX century that has been compiled based on contemporary historical records. Totally, the Index includes the names of approximately 40 000 localized settlements.
Volume Three of the Atlas comprises 352 pages.