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Map of a Part of the Tobolsk and Irkutsk Governorates from the Yenisei to the Amur, showing especially the regions around and south of Lake Baikal (from Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen, vol. 3, 1776)

Peter Simon Pallas; engraver A. Rykov

How we know

compilation Assembled from earlier sources. The author did not observe it directly.

survey compilation from Russian frontier maps and Pallas's own 1772 itinerary

Why it matters

The Academy's cartographic statement of the Russian-Qing frontier zone south of Baikal in the 1770s; companion to the Pallas Reise record.

Places named

Yenisei; Transbaikalia; Selenga; Kiakhta; Argun; Amur

Who copied whom

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