Maping process history. Beginning of the XXth century

Beginning of the part The first half of the XVIIth century The second part of the XVIIth century The first half of the XVIII century The second half of the XVIIIth century The first half of the XIXth century The second half of the XIXth century Title of the map of the Altai district

At the beginning of the 1900-s the Altai Territory occupied about the half of the area of the Tomsk province. The best and fertilest lands belonged to the Tsar Cabinet. Their belonging and the charakter of the use are shown on the map of the Altai Territory, published in the Atlas "Asiatic Russia" in 1914. The map of the region on a scale - 35,000 feet to the inch was compiled as a result of the activityof land surveyors and topographers in the 1860-s. It allowed to touch upon the next problem - the compiling of the general map on a scale 14,000 feet to the inch.At the beginning of the XXth century the work was completed. The need of state establishments in maps increased. They were used by the land surveying and land-tenure regulations, for the elaboration of province borders. One of the peculiarities of the compiling of maps in the Upper Ob-side in the XIXth century was the typographical copies were printed outside the mining region. On the border of two centuries in Barnaul the printing-lithograph-office was founded bu the Central Administration of the Altai Territory. The negative of the draught on the flat polished stone was required for the compiling of the lithografical map. Then some off-prints were made from the negative. The mono chrome copies were used as a typographical basisfor the next land surveying and land-tenure regulations. Necesseraly they were coloured by hand. So the same off-prints became another maps, made on same scale. One of the pages of our atlas present the map of the Altai Territory , published in Barnaul printing-lithograph- office in the 1910-s. At that time the region included 4 southern districts of the Tomsk province (Barnaul, Bijsk,Zmeinigorsk, Kuznetsk), on which the Transsiberian Railway lay. The settlement Novo-Nikolajevsk, built on the right bank of the Ob on the station Ob, is marked as a administrative centre. Like it two localities are marked, situated on the territory of present-day Altai - Slavgorod and Kamen-on the Ob. In the autumn of the year 1917 these settlements were administrative centres.