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