Viatka province (Geographic Playing Card)

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Title:

Viatka 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:

Northern Urals

Capital:

Viatka

Area (sq. miles):

53,222

Population:

1,662,800

Population density:

31.2 people per square mile

Ethnicity of inhabitants:

Russians, Votiaks, Cheremis, Tatars, Teptiars, Bashkirs

Economic activities:

factories, beekeeping, crop farming, timber trade, hemp and flax cultivation

Trade:

Trade is middling.

Cities:

11

Notable features:

Izhevskii arms factory. Viatka was founded at the end of the twelfth century by people from Novgorod.

Climate:

generally harsh

Card #:

62

Collection:

Regional Diversity