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The map shows the borders of oblasts and okrugs, railroads, and the resettlement districts of various earmarks. Original map at: Russian State Library
The map shows various administrative borders. It also marks land that was long settled by peasants, native lands and lands of those resettled. Cities, villages and railroad stations are indicated along with planned and existing railroad lines. Setka geograficheskikh koordinat. Original map at: Russian State Library Сетка географических координат.
This map shows various administrative borders. Also noted on the map are gold-producing regions, Cossack settlements, railroads, permafrost borders, isotherms, annual precipitation, cities and villages, and railroad stations. Prilozhenie k knige P.D. Lezhnina "Dal'niĭ Vostok. Bogatstva Priamur'i︠a︡ i Zabaĭkal'i︠a︡". Original map at: Russian State Library Приложение к книге П.Д. Лежнина "Дальний Восток. Богатства Приамурья и Забайкалья".
This map shows the major railroads located in the Russian Far East, Manchuria (China), and Korea in the early 20th century: the Ussuri Railroad, the Manchurian Railroad, and the Korean Railroad. The establishment of railroads was a major vehicle of imperial expansion and control in the Far East in this era, particularly for Russia and Japan. The map utilizes a variety of lines and colors to explain various phases of railroad construction: a double-black line for the completion of two tracks, a single black line for completion of one track, a red line for an established but only partially constructed railroad, and a dashed black line for a proposed (but still unbuilt) railroad. Several well-known Russian, Chinese, and Korean cities are shown on the map. These include Blagoveshchensk, Khabarovsk, and Vladivostok in Russia; Harbin, Mukden (present-day Shenyang), and Port Arthur (Lüshun) in China (Manchuria); and P'yongyang and Seoul in Korea. Black triangles signify the presence of Japanese troops in parts of northeastern China and Korea, reflecting the extensive military occupation by Japan following its victory in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-5. In the 19th century, as the Qing Dynasty of imperial China weakened, both Russia and Japan sought to take advantage of China's waning power by expanding into areas of northeastern China and neighboring Korea. Russia forced China to cede territories north and east of the Amur and Ussuri Rivers in the Treaty of Aigun of 1858 and in the Convention of Peking of 1860 and increased its influence in Manchuria from its base of operations in Harbin. Japan moved aggressively into China and Korea after victories in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 and in the Russo-Japanese War. As Japan became ascendant in the region after 1905, it targeted Russian railroad interests and reengineered local rail networks to serve its own interests. This map was compiled from notes of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society for use in a book on the Maritime Region of Russia (Primorskiy Kray, near Vladivostok). The map shows a scale at the bottom that utilizes the verst, a tsarist-era unit of distance equal to 1.07 kilometers. World Digital Library.
Presented here is a pocket atlas from 1900 of the steam transportation network of Siberia, including the Trans-Siberian Railroad, the Ussuri Railroad, and the Amur River steamship lines. The publication reflects Russian national pride in the recent establishment of transit links to the Pacific Ocean, even before all sections of the Trans-Siberian Railroad were complete. The atlas contains 27 maps and 14 photographs. The first map shows the global network of rail and steamship connections. It is followed by a general map of Asiatic Russia (Siberia) and a map of the Trans-Siberian Railroad as far as Irkutsk (the route to Vladivostok was unfinished as of 1900, especially the arduous mountain route along the southern tip of Lake Baikal). Other maps show the southern shores of Lake Baikal; the Trans-Baikal Railroad; the Amur steamship routes and the Ussuri Railroad; the Kwantung region (the southern part of Liaodong Peninsula in China, a territorial concession occupied by Russia in 1898); with Dalian and Port Arthur and their environs. Separate maps show some of the largest Siberian and Russian Far Eastern cities and their environs, including Tomsk, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Chita, Blagoveshchensk, and Vladivostok. Interspersed with the maps are photographs of Siberian scenes, depicting railroad stations, steamship wharves, and vistas of places shown on the accompanying maps. World Digital Library.
Relative Strength of Russia and Japan Now that hostilities have actually be gun in the Far East it may be of in terest to compare in a general way the resources of the two countries involved If this comparison be made without reference to the probable theater of war and the conditions hedging about the movement of forces thither the combatants seem very disproportionate ly matched The Russian empire com prises about oneseventh of the land surface of the globe Including intern al waters it covers an area of 8660305 square miles and its population is esti mated at about 120000000 inhabitants ot which 2005016 square miles and 106 264166 inhabitants were in 1000 com prised in European Russia It lias an annual revenue amounting to about 000000OOO and expenditures some what in excess of that sum The Rus sian army on a peace footing numbers about 1100000 men and oil a war foot ing about 0600000 men The navy is understood to comprise about 40000 officers and men 1 apan the island empire comprises an area of liil10s square miles including Formosa and tlie Pescadores Its popu lation including the islands specifical ly named numbered 47000Ono inhabi tants Its