Sankt Petersburg province (Geographic Playing Card)

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Title:

Sankt Petersburg 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:

Lakes region

Capital:

Sankt Petersburg

Area (sq. miles):

20,645

Population:

643,700

Population density:

31.2 people per square mile

Ethnicity of inhabitants:

Slavic tribes, Finnic tribes, colonists

Economic activities:

factories, fishing, quarrying, hunting

Trade:

Internal and external trade is extremely significant.

Cities:

Notable features:

Petropavlovskaia and Kronshtadtskaia fortresses. Petersburg was founded by Peter the Great in 1703 on the island of Enisar.

Climate:

wet, fluctuating

Card #:

Collection:

Regional Diversity

Tags:

Baltic Sea basin, climate: wet, colonists, factories, famous founder, Finnic tribes, fishing, fluctuating, forest, fortress, hunting & trapping, Lakes region, notable city, Peter I, quarrying, Slavic tribes, swamp, trade: active