Kherson province (Geographic Playing Card)
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Title:
Kherson 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:
Novorossiia
Capital:
Kherson
Area (sq. miles):
28,358
Population:
842,400
Population density:
29.7 people per square mile
Ethnicity of inhabitants:
Russians, Ukrainians, Jews, Germans, Gypsies, Swedes, Greeks, Armenians, Moldovans, Bulgarians, Serbs
Economic activities:
grain trade, winemaking, fishing, tobacco cultivation, cattle farming, crop farming, sheep farming
Trade:
Internal and external trade are rather active.
Cities:
6
Notable features:
fortresses, military port, dockyards, harbor, and admiralty. Kherson was founded by Empress Catherine II in 1778.
Climate:
generally temperate but changeable
Card #:
37