General survey plan for the Smolensk province 1780-1792.
“Title: 1792. General land surveying plan for the Smolensk province 1780-1792.”
Publication date: 1792
Description: 1792. “General land survey plan of the Smolensk province 1780-1792,” RaR, jpg., 481.73 Mb. //1792. “General Plan land survey of the Smolensk region 1780-1792 years. “, RaR, jpg., 481.73 MB.
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Gzhatsky district 2v 1792, Smolensky district 2v, Yunkhovsky district 1v 1792, Vyazemsky district 2v 1792, Sychevsky district 1v 1780, Gzhatsky district 1v, Porechsky district 2v, Elninsky district (2v), Roslavl district 1v, Dorogobuzhsky district 1v, Krasninsky district 2v" .

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The city of Smolensk with its immediate surroundings.
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Plan of the city of Smolensk.
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Updated 05/11/2014
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“General Land Survey Plans – Smolensk Province.
Published by admin on Mon, 04/02/2013 – 22:01
General surveying - measures to establish the exact boundaries of individual possessions, carried out in Russia from 1765 to the end of the 18th century. The materials of the General Survey that have survived to this day represent various plans land plots(both one site and general ones, for example, of a district), economic notes to plans (contain information about possessions, lands belonging to individual villages, hamlets, as well as information about the occupations of the population), land survey books (contain a description of the boundaries of that or another site), field notes (contain various documents drawn up directly during land surveying, for example, boundary moves, disputes, announcements of owners, oaths of witnesses), etc.

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“Title: General survey plan for the Smolensk province 1780-1792.
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Note: Gzhatsky district 2v 1792, Smolensky district 2v, Yunkhovsky district 1v 1792, Vyazemsky district 2v 1792, Sychevsky district 1v 1780, Gzhatsky district 1v, Porechsky district 2v, Elninsky district (2v), Roslavl district 1v, Dorogobuzhsky district 1v, Krasninsky county 2v
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Several years ago, almost simultaneously with the 3 layouts, even older PGM maps became available. General survey plans were mostly drawn up before 1800 and have a layout scale.

The usefulness of such a map in searching with a metal detector is 100% obvious, but... I rarely open them, although there are all the places where I dig. The first disappointment came when I couldn’t tie them. Secondly, what can I see on them that is not on the 3rd layout? There is no fair where the tables were (which is a pity).

It seems that there are old maps of high detail, on which even individual houses are indicated (in some places, barns, cool!)... But the real practical benefit It is very difficult to get from them. Okay, it’s impossible to pin down exactly by coordinates, but flaws appear even in small things.

On the PGM map there are 3 houses indicated in the village, at the digging point there are 5 of them. According to the map they are in a row, in reality there are “chess” between them of 50 meters. And any discrepancy between such cards (and their summation) turns out to be wasted time.

Story 1

We found a farmstead on the PGM, which was not on the three-layout map... Moreover, I know that the layouts have a very large error, and you shouldn’t rely on the coordinates. “I became attached” to the hills, which seemed to remain in place and were visible on the General Staff.

We arrived, wandered around for 3 hours, trying to locate the house... Moreover, they weren’t looking for bricks, then such houses were made of wood - they were looking for clay shards, “calling out” horse meat, or even anything from that time. Result 0.

There were several such attempts, and not only by me.

Story 2

We gathered for the plowed village. Based on the layout, they figured out the central estate, which was also called a stone house (at that time this was a big deal). 2 hours passed... As a result, the finds actually appeared only when we moved 200 meters from the initially planned point.

If we had arrived and immediately embarked on a broad reconnaissance (instead of marking time in the “exact” place), we would have localized it much faster.

Bottom line

So it turned out that my main cards are . Accuracy is passable, detail is average. The most important thing is that I don’t waste so much time with them when localizing on site.

I specifically asked my comrades - does anyone have a real example of how a PGM card led to a cop’s point? Moreover, such that the PGM is the only source of information, and without it these finds would not have happened. So far we don’t have such an example, although most have PGM cards))

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Maps of Smolensk province

Name				Example	Download
PGM Belsky district	2v	1780-90	145.9mb
PGM Vyazemsky district	1c	1780-90	16.4mb
PGM Vyazemsky district	2v	1780-90	50.4mb
PGM Gzhatsky district	1c	1780-90	69.4mb
PGM Gzhatsky district	2v	1780-90	69.6mb
PGM Dorogobuzhsky district	1c	1780-90	48.5mb
PGM Dorogobuzhsky district	2v	1780-90	59.3mb
PGM Dukhovskoy district	1c	1780-90	70.5mb
PGM Elninsky district	2v	1780-90	71.5mb
PGM Krasninsky district	2v	1780-90	43.9mb
PGM Poreč district	2v	1780-90	69.03mb
PGM Sychevsky district	1c	1780-90	86.1mb
PGM Roslavl district	1c	1780-90	22.8mb
PGM Roslavl district	2v	1780-90	78.4mb
PGM Smolensk district	2v	1780-90	43.15mb
PGM Yukhnovsky district	1c	1780-90	35.4mb
GPS OZI Smolensk province
Schubert map	3v		649.7mb
Lists of populated places		1859	576.2mb
Schubert map	3v	1880

Maps are available for free download

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Historical information on the province

Smolensk province - administrative entity within Russia that existed until 1917.It bordered from the north and northeast with the Tver province, with the E - Moscow and Kaluga, with the SE - Oryol, with the S - Chernigov, with the W - Mogilev, with the NW - Vitebsk and Pskov; was between 53°5" and 56°36" N. w. and between 30°9" and Zo°85" E. d. The greatest extent of the lips. from N to S 340 centuries, from E to W - 280 centuries. The area of ​​the province, according to Strelbitsky’s calculations, is 49,212 square meters. V. (according to general surveying 46,746 sq. in.), including under rivers and lakes 56,956 des. and under the swamps 303,752 des. Forming part of the Central Russian Upland, heading from the NW lips. from the Valdai, or Alaun, flat hill to the south in the province. Orlovskaya and Mogilevskaya, S. province. occupies the southern and east its slopes, and therefore the most elevated part of the lips. is located in the north. counties - Belsky and Sychevsky, where at the origins of pp. Osugi and Luches heights reach 1010 feet. above level seas, while the lowest areas lie in the south of the lips. in uu. Krasninsky, Roslavl and Elninsky, and their height reaches only 756 feet. at Zabolotya, 735 ft. at Tolbino and 707 ft. at Khotysin's. East part of the lips has a flat, treeless character, while the western one is crossed in different directions by undulating flat chains of hills that accompany the flow of rivers and in places form steep slopes into their valleys; these chains of hills also serve as a watershed for the tributaries of the Dvina and Dnieper and separate the tributaries of the latter in the south from the tributaries of the Oka, Desna and Sozh, and in the north from the tributaries of the Volga; on E they, going from Gzhatsk to Yukhnov, form the outskirts of the Moscow basin. The entire Belsky district, with the adjacent parts of Porechsky and Dukhovshchinsky, is deepened in the middle, as a result of which the waters, not having a free flow, formed huge swamps and many lakes here. Relief features of S. lips. are caused mainly by the alluvial action of the Ice Age, which deposited the material unevenly transported by it, and by the erosion of waters - which is why sometimes places lying to the north have a lower altitude than places lying to the south; so - the city of Vyazma lies at an altitude of 833 feet, and the city of Roslavl - 857 feet. and Cheluta, in Elninsky district. - 880 ft.

Administrative division

The Smolensk province was formed in 1708, consisting of 17 cities with counties: Smolensk, Roslavl, Dorogobuzh, Vyazma, Bely, Pogoreloe Gorodishche, Zubtsov, Staritsa, Serpeisk, Kozelsk, Meshchovsk, Mosalsk, Likhvin, Borisovo-Gorodishche, Przemysl, Vorotynsk, Odoev.

In 1713 the province was disbanded, most of it went to the Riga province.

In 1726, the Smolensk province was recreated as part of 5 counties: Smolensky, Belsky, Vyazemsky, Dorogobuzhsky and Roslavl.

In 1775 the province was transformed into the Smolensk governorship. 7 new counties were formed: Gzhatsky, Elninsky, Kasplyansky, Krasninsky, Porechsky, Ruposovsky, Sychevsky. After 2 years, Ruposovsky district was transformed into Yukhnovsky, and Kasplinsky into Dukhovshchinsky.

In 1796, the Smolensk governorship again became a province. At the same time, Dukhovshchinsky, Elninsky and Krasninsky districts were abolished (restored in 1802).

In 1918, Porechsky district was renamed Demidovsky. A year later, the Mstislavl district of the Gomel province entered the province.

In 1922, Krasninsky district was abolished. From the Gomel province, the Goretsky district was transferred, and the Yukhnovsky district was transferred to the Kaluga province.

In 1924, Goretsky and Mstislavl districts were transferred to the BSSR. A year later, Dukhovshchinsky district was transformed into Yartsevsky district.

In 1927, Demidovsky and Dorogobuzhsky districts were abolished, and a year later - Gzhatsky, Elninsky and Sychevsky.

In 1929, the Smolensk province was abolished, and its territory became part of the Western Region.

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There are a huge number of ancient maps in the public domain online. Most of which are marked and therefore relatively easy to link. These maps have been in circulation for a long time and almost all interesting places on them have been “knocked out” by search engines over the years. But there is another type of map that is ignored: PGM (general survey plans).

Characteristics of PGM:

Good scale (1-2 versts per inch)

Very detailed (everything is included) populated areas, farms, roads and point objects)

The year of publication is usually from 1700 to 1820 - i.e. the most interesting in monetary terms

Relatively little used by search engines due to the complexity of working with them

Linking a PGM is a complex and very time-consuming task:

First you need to accurately glue the card into one sheet. This is complicated by the fact that the number of fragments reaches fifty! In addition, maps are often glued to the canvas with a gap, which also requires preliminary gluing of the map sheets themselves, after which they are glued together into a huge canvas.

Color correction and contrast enhancement are carried out. The maps are many years old, they are faded and difficult to read. We are improving the quality of perception of information from maps.

PGM is not classic map, but in fact - a drawing. There is no grid to snap to, and errors in the image of objects can reach large values. And these errors must be minimized.

How do we link cards?

Professional surveyor software is used. Landmarks from modern topographic maps and satellite photographs are taken as reference points. Next, the map is “stretched” onto these reference points using triangulation, linear, affine or polynomial transformations (depending on the map). Several dozen points are used and a projection is selected. At the output, we get a file that is geometrically straightened (at the same time it is, as it were, “warped” so that the image more accurately matches the terrain). We will convert this file for you into Ozf2 + map file format. Upon request, we add kmz for Google Earth, rmp for Magellan Triton, jnx for new Garmins for free.

What is the accuracy of the binding?

The accuracy of the binding very much depends on the scale of your map, the year of compilation, the region (the further from Moscow the less accurate the maps are), the edition and the degree of change in the terrain in a particular sheet. On average, the error when tying single-layout machines is less than 150 (usually 40-50) meters. For two-verst PGMs - 200-250 (usually 80-120) m. This does not mean that the entire map will have some kind of shift. On the contrary, most of the map will fit perfectly, but in some places there may be an error. On individual sheets far from civilization (Siberia, the Russian north), the error may be higher.

How quickly does the binding occur?

From a day to a week depending on availability. When ordering, the completion date must be indicated. Please take into account the labor intensity of the work and order the binding in advance.

Sources of maps?

Most of the PGMs are freely available, some are in our private collection. You can also send your cards.

How to send cards?

Whatever suits you. We can provide FTP, or upload it to Yandex.Disk, for example, and send the link by email.

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Cost and payment

The cost of linking one county is from 400 to 1500 rubles (depending on the complexity, number of sheets and the need for gluing them together). Payment is possible in electronic currencies, through express payment terminals or in another convenient way as agreed upon.