GLINKA, Grigoriy Vyacheslavovich.

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Atlas' aziatskoi Rosii ("Atlas of Asiatic Russia"). First edition, first printing, of this handsome atlas, rarely seen in collectible condition. Covering present day Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Siberia and Russian East Asia, it was designed to accompany Glinka's three-volume work of the same title but is equally a stand-alone work of considerable significance.The content reflects the significant advances made in the colonization and exploitation of Siberia, Russian Central Asia, and the Far East following the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway in the 1890s and the agrarian reforms begun by Witte and advanced by Stolypin. It was a period during which Russia became one of the world's largest agricultural exporters, a growth in economic opportunity which encouraged mass migration from European Russia to the East, which was controlled by the newly formed Emigration, or Resettlement, Administration. The director of the administration, Grigoriy Glinka, was the instigator and chief editor of the present work. The atlas itself is prefaced by an introductory historical essay on the cartography of the region by Leo Bagrow, who founded founded the journal Imago Mundi in 1935, and a spectacular collection of maps representing all regions and provinces of Asiatic Russia, together with plans of 14 of the major cities and diagrams schematizing statistical data about population density, climate, soil quality, and trade.

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