A Little-Known Plan of the City of Turkestan in 1854 from the Archive of the Russian Geographical Society
Малоизвестный план города Туркестана 1854 года из архива Русского географического общества
Bimendiev A.Sh. Kozha M.B. Uskenbay K.Z.
1 March 2022International Network Center for Fundamental and Applied Research
Bylye Gody
2022#17Issue 1225 - 236 pp.
The article analyzes the content of a little-known plan of the city of Turkestan in 1854 from the archive of the Russian Geographical Society in St. Petersburg. Russian Geographical Society in St. Petersburg in 2006-2008, two Kazakh researchers Dr. Abdibek Bimendiev and Dr. Kanat Uskenbay, during the identification and collection of photo-illustrative and cartographic material on the history and culture of Kazakhstan in museums, archives and libraries of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation, discovered in the archive of the Russian Geographical Society in St. Petersburg an unknown plan of the city of Turkestan and its districts, compiled in Russian ten years before the arrival of Russians in Turkestan in 1854. The analysis of the content of the plan, sources and historiography of that period, as well as the modern study of the archeology of Turkestan, conducted by the authors of the study, testifies to the originality of the data of the discovered source. The authors conclude that the Turkestan plan of 1854 is of great historical value as a primary source for studying the historical topography of Turkestan from the late Middle Ages to the first half of the nineteenth century. The fortifications of the city and citadels, gates, bazaars, mosques, sacred places, gardens, irrigation canals, mills, bridges, roads are marked on it. The original names of individual historical objects are recorded in the plan. The document under consideration in the issue of the gates of Turkestan provides unique information. Copyright
bazaar , city plan , gate , mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi , mosque , Russian Geographical Society , shahristan , Turkestan
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Scientific Research Institute of Archeology, The International Kazakh-Turkish University H.A. Yasavi, Kazakhstan
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