i am from the far east of the island of shikatan, the small kuril islands. regions appeared, for an answer to the russian geographical society celle guruva. before us is the first of the surviving russian maps, on the remiz map, the boundaries of the subjects were not indicated, this was in pre-petrine times, but starting from the 18th century, from the period of peter, we see here the first russian atlas, here the borders of the province are already clearly visible, though with the current ones do not coincide, you and i are now on... we will find modern maps not of the ustyug region, nor of the tobolsk region, for example, the irkutsk province occupied practically the territory of the entire far east, but it is difficult to manage such a large region, we owe the modern division, of course, to the period of the creation of the soviet union, when the names republic, region, paradise, autonomous region, autonomous district, familiar to us until today, appeared on the map, but why statuses you... republics, the main feature here is national. they have their ow