Iaroslav province (Geographic Playing Card)
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Title:
Iaroslav 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:
Central Industrial region
Capital:
Yaroslavl'
Area (sq. miles):
14,051
Population:
1,008,100
Population density:
71.7 people per square mile
Ethnicity of inhabitants:
Russians, Gypsies, Karelians
Economic activities:
paper and textile factories, cast iron production, shipping, markets, gardening, sale of firewood
Trade:
Trade is conducted rather actively.
Cities:
10
Notable features:
Piers: Rybinskaia and Yaroslavskaia. Yaroslavl' was founded by the Grand Prince Yaroslav I.
Climate:
temperate
Card #:
46