Poltava province (Geographic Playing Card)
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Title:
Poltava 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:
Left Bank
Capital:
Poltava
Area (sq. miles):
19,089
Population:
1,783,000
Population density:
93.4 people per square mile
Ethnicity of inhabitants:
Ukrainians, Poles, Jews
Economic activities:
crop farming, cattle farming, beekeeping, sheep farming, sugar beet factories, textile production, tobacco production, saltpeter factories
Trade:
Internal trade is rather significant.
Cities:
15
Notable features:
There is a medicinal garden in the city of Lubny. 5 versts from Poltava is located a Swedish grave where one thousand five hundred Russian soldiers are buried.
Climate:
temperate
Card #:
32