And the German version of 1737.



1736 on German, many points on the Donets are marked

French map of the Seversky Donets basin, 1738. To the south of Tor and Yampol are the Ostraya Mogila and Shchurovka mountains, which are not found on maps later and it is not clear what heights they call, although the toponyms are still alive.

1745. Voronezh province

two versions of Bosquet's 1751 map,
the Turkish border of 1711 is marked, the word "lines" means Ukrainian line settlement, near Bakhmut, the settlement of Slaveno-Serbia begins

map of Bosquet, 1754

plan of the Catherine province from the Dnieper to the Donets, indicating the towns, settlements and farms of the Ukrainian line, 1765

also 1765, but the plan Bakhmut city district with settlements of hussar companies

1782, Azov province, along Belyanka and Torts, the border between Torsk and Bakhmut counties passes

land map of a part of the Izyum district of the Kharkov province, 1784

1792 map compiled by Wilbrecht at the Mining School. Yekaterinoslav vicegerency. Look - Donetsk. This is the very first of three cities with this name. And what is it called now?



"Capital" map of 1816. Churches in Belyansky (now the lower part of Oktyabrsky and Ivanovka) and Shabelkovka



maps of 1821 Kharkov and Yekaterinoslav provinces, ed. Pyadyshev. the territory of Kramatorsk on the very border with Yekaterinoslavskaya

1830, Sloboda-Ukrainian province

ten-verst Schubert, 1842

trehverstovka Schubert 1861 or 1863

it seems such exactly the same map, but clearer and with some kind of geology


map of Strelbitsky in 1868 with an approximate route of the Kursk-Kharkov-Azov railway under construction


postcard Russian Empire 1871 ed. Ilyin. Two Slavyansks: city and station


map of mineral resources of the Bakhmut district 1902 (according to other data from 1889) indicates the presence of coal near Kramatorsk

1903, the railway line built in 1894 from Slavyansk to the station is visible. Rapnaya



edition of Schubert's 1896 triverstovka, but without a branch to Rapnaya

1909, Marx's World Desktop Atlas, 2nd edition (1910). On this fragment, for example, there is New York.

trehverstovka Schubert 1919. Severo-Donetsk appeared Railway(1910-1911). The second station Kramatorska is the current Shpychkino, the terminal station of the branch of the Severodonetskaya railway. from Liman station, while the first Kramatorsk station belongs to the Southern railway. The Slavic city branch is marked with a thin inconspicuous line, probably because it was not part of the big railways.

Publication 1920. By the way, the meridians on Russian maps are counted from Pulkovo and sometimes additionally from Paris.

two ukrainian cards 1918

1928, Artyomovsky district
Belenkaya (town since 1938) and Druzhkovka (town since 1938) are still fragmented into a handful of small settlements. The actively built up part of Slavyansk to the north of the station was called Novo-Slavyansk. Many colonies and artels. Small red circles are village councils, small squares are village councils, large circles are district councils, and a large square is the city.



American map 1943 edition based on Soviet maps 1938. marked New Slavyanskaya

topographic map of 1939 with the scheme of the offensive of the 57th and 37th armies, January 1942


"card of the red army" 1:500,000, 1941

aerial photography of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk August 1941

German map 1943, sheet Makiivka. Here on the Slavic city railway, even the stations are marked. The railway to the south of the then Sotsgorod - temporary for the transport of building materials, was dismantled after the war.

Scheme of the South-Donetsk railway in 1943 (the road existed in 1937-1953). For some reason, the Slavic city railway breaks off at Rapnaya, but the name of the current op pleases. Overview - Colonial (on other maps it is hardly noticeable).


map from znich.org.ua
1942. Didn't find New York? Here it is, too, and more noticeable.


1943, American map of the European part of the USSR. List is called Konstantinovka, because before the war it was larger than Kramatorsk.


map of the USSR 1944 (published 1946). nothing special except Bylbasovka (until 1964 it was officially erroneously called Belbasovka) on the site of Cherevkovka and Krasnogorka instead of Krasnotorka


1952, Sotsgorod marked as locality Sotsgorodok. in addition, Sotsgorodok was marked near Kurakhovo, but rightly so - in 1958 it was renamed the city of Gornyak.

1980, American aeronautical chart, again the sheet is called Konstantinovka. All heights are in feet. High-altitude obstacles are signed selectively, in the Kramatorsk factory zone only a 225-foot pipe (~ 70 m, the highest there is 150) was noted, in the Slavyanskaya GRES - 250 feet (probably not translated from meters), but the mysterious 400-foot (~ 120 m) confuses ) mast at Slavkurort. Until now, the Slavic city railway has been drawn, although it was significantly opened up until 1970. And in general, the map does not inspire confidence, look, for example, at Stantsiya Brosino(right Brusin).


1985. Since then, there have been notable changes for such a scale:
1. the cemetery on KIM has expanded
2. Several old quarters on Petrovka were demolished and an unfinished boiler house was built
3. the railway line to the ocher mine was dismantled
4. The railway line along the Kutovoy beam has been dismantled
5. built a new area "Azure" ("Chernobyl") and the road to it
6. private development transferred to the Belenkovsky village council (these quarters should now be black)
7. a railway line and a bridge to the LiP plant were built
8. rope suspension road from Raygorodok to Khimprom dismantled
9. built a road bridge across the Donets
10. The branch line to the Rapnaya station was dismantled in the 1990s, the station itself is not even on this map
11. Mashchermet station was renamed after A. M. Kozhushko in 2012
12. o. Sobolevka was renamed Raygorodok
13. earth dam completed and reservoir filled
14. The TV tower on Karachun-mountain was destroyed by separatists in 2014. That and its height is not at all 180 m

Aerial photograph of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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Historical information on the province

Kherson province- the province, which was located in Novorossia and covered the modern Kherson, Nikolaev, part of the Odessa and Kirovograd regions.


The province was founded in 1803 by Alexander I by decree No. 20760 of May 15, when the center was transferred from Nikolaev to Kherson. The province existed until 1922, then part of it became Nikolaev.

At By the decree of the Senate of October 8, 1802, the Novorossiysk province was divided into Yekaterinoslav, Nikolaev and Tauride provinces. Kherson district became part of the Nikolaev province. The Nikolaev province lasted less than a year. By the Decree of the Senate of May 15, 1803, the provincial administration from Nikolaev was transferred to Kherson and the province became known as Kherson. Before late XIX century significant administrative-territorial changes in the Kherson region did not occur. In March 1918, three northern counties, including Dneprovsky, went from Crimea to Ukraine, it became integral part Kherson province. On January 28, 1920, the All-Ukrainian Revolutionary Committee adopted a resolution on the division of the Kherson province into Kherson and Odessa. Nikolaev became the center of the Kherson province. In December 1920, the Kherson province was renamed into Nikolaev. Kherson became the county center of the Nikolaev province. In 1922, the Odessa and Nikolaev provinces were merged into the Odessa province. Kherson district has since become part of the Odessa province. In 1923, the Odessa province was divided into 6 districts, including the Kherson district with the center in the city of Kherson. In 1930, a new administrative-territorial reform was carried out. The Kherson district was liquidated, and the Kherson rural district was transferred to the department of the Kherson City Council of Working People's Deputies. In September 1937, Nikolaevskaya was separated from the Odessa region.

Administrative division

Initially, the province was divided into 4 counties: Elisavetgrad, Tiraspol, Olviopol and Kherson, and from July 1806 into 5: Alexandria, Elisavetgrad, Olviopol, Tiraspol and Kherson. In 1825, the Odessa district was created from parts of the Kherson and Tiraspol districts. In 1828 Olviopol and Elisavetgrad counties were abolished and Bobrinet county was created on their basis. In 1834, the Tiraspol district was divided into 2 parts and a new Ananyevsky district was created. In 1865, the administration of Bobrinetsky uyezd was transferred to Elisavetgrad and the uyezd was renamed Elisavetgradsky.

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