Old maps of Belarus. Maps of the Vitebsk province Map of the Vitebsk province early 20th century

Vitebsk province- an administrative-territorial unit of the Russian Empire; together with, and formed the Northwest Territory. Provincial city - Vitebsk.

History of the Vitebsk province

Having come to power, Paul I carried out a new administrative-territorial reform. On December 12, 1796, the Belarusian province was formed with the center in Vitebsk, which consisted of 16 districts: Belitsky, Velizhsky, Vitebsky, Gorodoksky, Dinaburgsky, Lyutsinsky, Mogilevsky, Mstislavsky, Nevelsky, Orshansky, Polotsky, Rogachevsky, Sebezhsky, Sennensky. It included the lands of the Polotsk and Mogilev governorships.

It was difficult to govern such large provinces, and in 1801 Alexander I carried out a new reform. According to it, the Belarusian province in 1802 was divided into the Mogilev and Vitebsk provinces, which became part of the Belarusian governorate-general.

Districts of Vitebsk province

At the time of formation, in 1802, Vitebsk province was divided into 12 counties: Velizhsky, Vitebsky, Gorodoksky, Dinaburgsky, Drissensky, Lepelsky, Lyutsinsky, Nevelsky, Polotsky, Rezhitsky, Sebezhsky and Surazhsky.

In 1866, the Surazh district was abolished. In 1893, the Dinaburgsky district was renamed Dvinsky.

P / p No.	County	County town	Square, verst	Population (1897), people.
1	Velizhsky	Velizh (12,193 people)	3 900,0	100 079
2	Vitebsk	Vitebsk (65 871 people)	2 861,1	177 432
3	Gorodoksky	Gorodok (5,023 people)	3 107,1	112 033
4	Dvinsky (Dinaburgsky)	Dvinsk (Dinaburg) (69 675 people)	3 860,4	237 023
5	Driessen	Drissa (4,238 people)	2 568,9	97 083
6	Lepelsky	Lepel (6,284 people)	3 401,6	156 706
7	Lucinsky	Lucin (5,140 people)	4 600,1	128 155
8	Nevelsky	Nevel (9 349 people)	3 397,7	110 394
9	Polotsk	Polotsk (20,294 people)	4 186,7	141 841
10	Rezhitsky	Rezitsa (10 795 people)	3 581,9	136 445
11	Sebezhsky	Sebezh (4 326 people)	3 184,0	92 055

After the October Revolution Vitebsk province became part of the RSFSR. In 1919, the Sennensk district was transferred from the Mogilev province to the Vitebsk province, and a year later the Orsha district was transferred from the Gomel province. In the same year, Dvinsky, Lyutsinsky and Rezhitsky districts were transferred to Latvia. In 1923, Gorodoksky, Drissensky and Sennensky counties were abolished, and Lepelsky was renamed Bocheikovsky.

Vitebsk province was formed under Alexander the First in 1802 as a result of the division of the previously existing (since 1796) vast Belarusian province into Vitebsk and Mogilev. The lands that became part of the Vitebsk province during its formation were previously part of the Pskov, then the Polotsk province (once the Polotsk principality). Until the 17th century. these territories were dependent on the Commonwealth and Lithuania. According to the decree of the Governing Senate of February 27 / March 11, 1802, the new Vitebsk province consisted of twelve counties: Velizh, Vitebsk, Gorodok, etc. Since its establishment, Vitebsk province was part of the Belarusian General Government. In 1823-1856. - consistently - in the course of the corresponding reorganizations, as part of Vitebsk, Smolensk and Mogilev (with the administrative center in Vitebsk), in 1856-1869. - Vilna governors general. Together with the provinces of Vilensk, Kovno, Grodno, Minsk and Mogilev, Vitebsk province formed the North-Western Territory, part of the western outskirts of the Russian Empire.

In Vitebsk province in whole or in part
there are the following maps and sources:
(except for the general ones indicated on the main page
all-Russian atlases, where this province may also be)

2-imposition of land surveying (1780s - 1790s)
A two-page survey map - non-topographic (latitudes and longitudes are not indicated on it), a hand-drawn map of the last decades of the 18th century, very detailed - on a scale of 1 inch 2 versts or in 1 cm 840 m... A separate county was drawn in fragments, on several sheets, shown on a single sheet.
The purpose of the land survey map is to indicate the boundaries of private land plots (so-called dachas) within the county.

Vitebsk province - military 3-page layout of the 19th century
Military three-verstka - a detailed military map of the Vitebsk province of topographic surveys of the 1880s. and editions of the early 1900s. Scale - in 1 cm 1260 m.

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Vitebsk province - a list of settlements in 1906
The List of Localities is a universal reference publication containing the following information:
- the status of a settlement (a village, a hamlet, a village - proprietary or state-owned, that is, state-owned);
- the location of the settlement (in relation to the nearest tract, camp, at a well, pond, stream, river or river);
- the number of households in the settlement and its population (men and women separately);
- distance from the county town and the camp apartment (the center of the camp) in versts;
- the presence of a church, chapel, mill, etc.
Total 86 pages.

Economic Notes to the General Survey of Vitebsk Province

Seven of the twelve counties of the new province, Velizhsky, Dinaburgsky, Drissensky, Lyutsinsky, Nevelsky, Rezhitsky and Sebezhsky, were part of the Pale of Settlement, the boundaries of which were determined in 1791 after the second partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. During the reign of Alexander II, 1866, the Surazh district was abolished, and its lands were unevenly redistributed between the Vitebsk, Velizh and Gorodok districts. Under Alexander III, in 1893, due to the renaming of Dinaburg to Dvinsk, the Dinaburgsky district was renamed Dvinsky. During the entire subsequent pre-revolutionary period in the history of the province, there were no changes in its composition and configuration of its internal and external borders. The Vitebsk region today is located within the Republic of Belarus and occupies the southern part of the Vitebsk province, plus parts of the Vilna, Minsk and Mogilev provinces.

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PGM Polotsk district	2c	1780-90gg	27.2mb
PGM Vitebsk district	2c	1780-90gg	28.8mb
PGM Sebezhsky district	2c	1780-90gg	29.9mb
PGM Nevelsky district	1c	1780-90gg	115.4mb
Lists of settlements		1906
EP Vitebsk district			53.08mb

All materials on Vitebsk province are available for free download!

Historical information on the province

Vitebsk province, formed in 1802, corresponds to the northeastern part of the modern Vitebsk region of Belarus, as well as the eastern part of Latvia (including the cities of Dvinsk-Daugavpils, Rezhitsa-Rezekne and Lyutsin-Ludza) and some regions of Russia (Nevel and Sebezh - Pskov region, Velizh - Smolensk region).

Administrative divisions
There are 12 cities, 41 townships, 19,750 villages in the province.
Counties: Vitebsky, Velizhsky, Gorodoksky, Dvinsky (formerly Dinaburgsky), Drissensky, Lepelsky, Lyutsinsky, Nevelsky, Polotsky, Rezhitsky, Sebezhsky.

Territory
At the beginning of the 20th century: 38,649.5 sq. versts (according to Brockhaus-Efron) or 39700 (according to Pavlenkov).

NSnatural conditions
The surface is undulating, the most elevated strip stretching from the Pskov province to Nevel and Gorodok (up to 952 feet in height), then along the watershed of the Western Dvina and the Dnieper; the western part (Dvinsky, Lyutsinsky and Rezhitsky districts) is low-lying; many lakes (about 2500), swamps and forests; the soil is unfertile, clayey and sandy loam.

The rivers
The Western Dvina is navigable along its entire length; its tributaries Mezha, Kasplya (or Kispla) and Ulla are navigable; the main rafting rivers: Luchessa, Ushach, Usyacha, Poloto and Drissa.

Lakes
Of the lakes, the following are significant: Luban (112 sq. Versts), Razno (75 sq. Versts) and Osveyskoe (49 sq. Versts); swamps occupy up to 4000 sq. versts

Climate
The west is softer than the east; The Western Dvina near Dvinsk is ice-free for 247 days a year.

Population
1.669 million (1904) or 1.74 million (not later than 1910), of which 237 (255) thousand in cities.

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It was the exact establishment of the boundaries of land holdings of both individuals and peasant communities, cities, churches and other possible land owners.

Sample of Babinovichi district

Vitebsk province

Vitebsk district 2 versts

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Nevelsky district 2 versts

Polotsk district 2 versts

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Sebezhsky district 2 versts

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Minsk province

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Mogilev province

Belitsky uyezd 2 versts

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Klimovichi district 2 versts

Kopysk district 2 versts

Mogilev district 2 versts

Mstislavsky district 2 versts

Orsha district 2 versts

Rogachevsky district 2 versts

Senno district 2 versts

Starobykhovsky district 2 versts

Chausky district 2 versts

Cherikovsky district 2 versts

3 verst maps of Belarus.

F.F. the scale is three versts, which translated into the modern system of calculus will be 1: 126000, that is, 1 cm - 1.260 km. These old cards date back to the second half of the 19th century, maps have been printed since 1860. and until the beginning of 1900.

All maps with good detail of objects, showing churches, mills, cemeteries, relief, type of terrain and other objects.

Sample of 3 layout

Maps can be downloaded.

Special Map of European Russia.

is a huge cartographic publication, designed for 152 sheets and covering slightly more than half of Europe. Mapping took 6 years, from 1865 to 1871. Scale of maps: in 1 inch - 10 versts, 1: 420,000, which in the metric system is about 1 cm - 4.2 km.

Maps can be downloaded.

Maps of the Red Army.

(Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army) were compiled and published both in the USSR in the period from 1925 to 1941, and in Germany, in preparation for the war, in the period 1935-41. On maps printed in Germany, the name in German is often printed next to the Russian name of a village, river, etc.

250 meters.

Poland (Polsha) 1:25 000

500 meters.

kilometers.

Maps can be downloaded.

Polish WIG cards.

The maps were published in pre-war Poland - Military Institute of Geography (Wojskowy Instytut Geograficzny), the scale of these maps is 1: 100000 and 1: 25000, or, if simpler, then 1 cm - 1 km and 1 cm -250 m, the quality of the maps is very good - 600 dpi, respectively, and the size of the maps is also not small, in fact, more than 10 megabyte.

Smart, detailed and search engine friendly maps. All the smallest details are visible: farmsteads, dungeons, farmsteads, manors, taverns, chapels, mills, etc.

Kilometers.

sample WIG card.

250 meters

One verst map of Belarus.

A one verst map of the western border area in 1-verst-in-inch scale (1: 42000) was published from the 1880s until the First World War, and was reprinted until the late 1930s.
Maps in scale 1: 42000.

Military topographic 2 verst map of the Western Border Space.

Maps at a scale of 1: 84000 (double imposition). Two-page maps of the western border area began to be printed in 1883. Also, the maps were the base topographic maps during the First World War in the Russian army.

After the 1st partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1772), most of the Vitebsk and Polotsk Voivodeships of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were annexed to the Russian Empire. At first, the lands were part of the Pskov province, and from 1776 into the formed Polotsk province (in 1778-1796 - the Polotsk governorship). After the 2nd partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1793), the Lepel district was formed from the newly added territories of the former Polotsk voivodeship. In 1796 the former Polotsk and Mogilev governorates were united into the Byelorussian province, which was abolished on February 27, 1802, and its territory was divided into Vitebsk and Mogilev provinces. Vitebsk province administratively divided into 12 counties: Velizhsky, Vitebsk, Gorodoksky, Dvinsky, Driessen, Lepelsky, Lucinsky, Nevelsky, Polotsk, Rezhitsky, Sebezhsky and Surazhsky (abolished in 1866, its territory is divided between Velizhsky, Vitebsk and Gorodoksky districts).

In 1917-19, Vitebsk province was part of various administrative entities (Western region, Western commune), the BSSR, and was finally annexed to the RSFSR. In July 1919, the Senno district of the Mogilev province was transferred to the Vitebsk province, in November 1920 - the Orsha district of the Gomel province (a newly formed administrative unit from the districts of the abolished Mogilev province). According to the agreement between the RSFSR and Latvia in 1920, the former Dvinsky, Lyutsinsky and Rezhitsky districts were transferred to Latvia. In February 1923, Gorodoksky, Driessen and Sennensky counties were abolished; Lepel district was renamed Bocheikovsky. Vitebsk province was abolished on 03/10/1924. Vitebsk, Gorodoksky, Drissensky, Lepelsky, Polotsky, Sennensky and Surazhsky districts became part of the BSSR, and Velizhsky, Nevelsky, Sebezhsky - into the Pskov province of the RSFSR.

Population of Vitebsk province

According to the 1897 census, the population of the province was 1486.2 thousand people. According to the estate: noblemen - 30 509, priests and members of their families - 4216, merchants and members of their families - 5236, bourgeois - 277 574, peasants - 1 164 444. According to religion: Orthodox - 825 524, Catholics - 356 939, Jews - 175 586, Old Believers - 82 968, Lutherans - 46 139. Belarusians - 788 599 people. In 1914 there were 666 churches on the territory of the Vitebsk province ( see the list of Orthodox parishes of the Vitebsk and Polotsk dioceses for 1906), 149 churches, 53 synagogues, 262 Jewish and 81 Old Believer prayer houses, 14 churches.

In 1848, in the Vitebsk province, among the educational institutions - the Polotsk cadet corps, 2 gymnasiums, a seminary, 6 district schools, 10 parish and 10 rural schools. In 1914 - 228 educational institutions (gymnasiums, gymnasiums, real schools, seminaries, etc.), 1814 public schools, 365 parochial schools and 57 schools of writing.

Orel-Vitebsk, Rigo-Dinaburgskaya, Dinaburgsko-Vitebsk railways and Vitebsko-Velizhsky, Vitebsko-Lepelsky, Nevelsko-Velikoluksky, Velizhsko-Smolensky post roads passed through the territory of the province. In addition to the county towns, there were 42 townships. By the end of the 19th century, the industry in the Vitebsk province was poorly developed, distilleries predominated; there were extended forestry activities - deforestation for sale, tar race, etc.

Messages:

2019-12-24 Alexander Anatolyevich Leontiev Marchenki, village (Velizhsky district)

My mother Ivanova Tatyana Fominichna and uncle Ivanov Alexander Fomich are from the village of Marchenki. My uncle fought on the Karelian front, and my mother and her mother were taken to Germany. Maybe that's why they survived. After the war they lived in Karelia, where they are buried. 6csc4 ...> >>

2019-12-22 Larisa Zakrevskaya Dymanovo, village (Vitebsk district)

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2019-12-18 Dmitry Pozdnyakov

Best regards, Dmitry Pozdnyakov [email protected] Hello. I would very much like to know my ancestors from Belarus on the descending line. My Volkovs left Belarus after 1910 for Russia, as they called it. Art. Khoper of Boloshevsky district. Then they left for Novoaleksandrovka of Ishim district because of a lack of land. Father Leonty Volkov. with his wife Maria Konovna, sons Stepan, 1892, Dorofey, 1907, Emelyan, Athanasius, Philip, and the daughters of Nastya, Dusya, Natalya, Efrosinya was still present, but died at the age of 12. All children were born in the village of Dudoreva, the children of the town of the province of Ethioma, the Pitebsk region. from the second marriage. From the first in the village of Dudorev there was an adult file of which he left his small estate. The daughter seemed to be already married. We were engaged in growing apples, etc. There was one more grandmother, the daughter of Dorofei Leon ... quoted1>>>

2019-12-17 Dmitry Pozdnyakov Dudarevo, village (Gorodok district)

2019-12-14 Igor Gorokhov Lutovye, village (Polotsk district)

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2019-12-13 Igor Logunov Zaborovki, village (Gorodok district)

Note from the "Polotsk Diocesan Gazette" for 1893. About donated. Parishioners of the Mukhovskaya church - peasants of the Zaborsk community, Obolsk volost, ten villages, according to their verdict, dated May 5, 1892, built a chapel (at the village of Skobin) 4 fathoms long and 3 fathoms wide, on a stone foundation, in memory of the event of April 29, 1891 a porch about 4 windows, it is covered with wood, the main one is covered with iron and painted, 4 icons of the Mother of God Odigitriya, the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos, St. The Apostles Peter and Paul and St. Nicholas, to the icons set the candlesticks, in the designated chapel by the peasant of the village Andreyok Mikhail Stefanov, der. Skobin by Stefan Vasiliev and the village of Moskalev by Mikhail Lukianov ...>>>

2019-12-12 Maganov Gennady Lyubanevka, village (Gorodok district)

Our family, along the line of my mother Fadeeva, comes from the village of Lobanevka, which was located on the southern shore of Lake Zavesno. It is known that in 1932 Fadeev Konstantin Gavrilovich and another Fadeev (probably a relative) were repressed from this village. My grandfather Vasily Konstantinovich Fadeev was born in the village of Lobanevka (?) And my mother was also born in the village of Lobanevka (according to the metric). But in the criminal case of 1932, which is stored in the archives of the KGB of the Vitebsk region, according to the employees, there is no information about the relationship of Vasily Konstantinovich Fadeev (born in 1900 - died in 1965 in Karelia) and his father (according to my assumptions) Konstantin Gavrilovich Fadeev born in 1872 - Repressed in 1932 as part of an organized group of illiterate peasants atisoviet. So I'm looking for a birth certificate ...>>>

2019-12-10 Vladimir Gavrilov Shilino, village (Gorodok district)

Good day! I am interested in the origin of my great-grandfather Stefanov Gavriil Stefanovich, born in 1858, the village of Shilino. Perhaps he had the surname Ternovoi.
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2019-12-02 Andrey Ostankov Korchagi, village (Polotsk district)

I am interested in an extract from the metric book of Sofya Vasilievna Pivinskaya, who was born in 1886 in the BSSR, the village of Korchaga! ...>>>

2019-12-02 Lev Zimbitsky Novka, settlement (Vitebsk district)

Good day! Can you please tell me where to find the population census of 1900-1940? ...>>>