Astrakhan province (Geographic Playing Card)
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Title:
Astrakhan province
Subject:
Regional Diversity
Creator:
Konstantin Matveevich Gribanov
Source:
Album of Geographical Playing Cards of Russia, arranged on 80 cards according to maritime basin (A wonderful and instructive child's game of patience)
Publisher:
Library of Congress; Russian National Library
Date:
1856
Rights:
Access provided by the Library of Congress strictly for noncommercial educational and research purposes.
Language:
Russian
Region:
Lower Volga region
Capital:
Astrakhan
Area (sq. miles):
71,617
Population:
344,400
Population density:
4.8 people per square mile
Ethnicity of inhabitants:
Russians, Ukrainians, Armenians, Greeks, Georgians, Persians, Jews, Khivans, Turkmen, Bukharans, Indians, Kalmyks, Tatars (Kirgiz)
Economic activities:
cattle farming, fishing, shipbuilding, salt lakes, orchardry, watermelon cultivation, reed growing, trade in medicinal plants
Trade:
Trade is conducted extremely actively.
Cities:
5
Notable features:
Principal military port on the Caspian Sea founded by Peter I in 1722. Astrakhan' was founded by Tsar Ioann Vasil'ev[ich] the Terrible in 1554.
Climate:
warm
Card #:
53