Don Cossack Host (Geographic Playing Card)

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Title:

Don Cossack Host

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:

Novorossiia

Capital:

Novocherkask

Area (sq. miles):

62,568

Population:

704,300

Population density:

11.3 people per square mile

Ethnicity of inhabitants:

Russians, Ukrainians, Gypsies, Armenians, Greeks, Kalmyks

Economic activities:

cattle farming, fishing, hemp and flax cultivation, quarries, distilleries, iron mines, salt lakes, viticulture

Trade:

Trade is middling.

Cities:

Notable features:

Pier in Kachalinskii camp.

Climate:

warm, pleasant, and healthful

Card #:

Collection:

Regional Diversity

Tags:

animal husbandry, Armenians, Black Sea basin, climate: warm, distilleries, flax, grapes, Greeks, Gypsies, hemp, iron, Kalmyks, mines, Novorossiia, pleasant, quarries, river port, Russians, salt, trade: moderate, Ukrainians, winemaking