19. A. Shevelev, Karta Evropeiskoi Rossii i Sibirii na 4 Listakh. Sankt Peterburg, 1887. COLL.S/T U.2m.78
This huge hand-coloured lithographed 'Map of European Russia and Siberia' (see inset map 'Asian Russia') was designed by lieutenant-colonel Shevelev of the General Staff. It shows the administrative division of the Empire. Each Governorate has a different colour and is subdivided into Oblasts (provinces). Columns give the latest statistical information about their territories and populations and also a distance table. The expansion of railways throughout European Russia is remarkable. Their network not only boosted the trade but also led to the industrialisation and urbanisation of regions like the Donbas. Near its rich coal-fields blast furnaces were built which employed thousands of workers. Although the Empire had unskilled labour in almost unlimited quantities, many poor Ukrainian farmers rather migrated to the Russian Far East or to America than settle around these dirty and unsafe mines and steel factories. Thus Russian workers had to be recruited.