File:Generalʹnai︠a︡ Karta Orenburgskoĭ Gubernii Sʺ pokazaniemʺ pochtovykhʺ i bolʹshikhʺ proi︠e︡zzhikhʺ dorogʺ, stant︠s︡iĭ i razstoi︠a︡nii︠a︡ mezhdu onymi verstʺ. LOC 2018688685.tif

English: This 1824 map of Orenburg Provinceis from a larger work,Geograficheskii atlas Rossiiskoi imperii, tsarstva Pol'skogo i velikogo kniazhestva Finliandskogo(Geographical atlas of the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Poland, and the Grand Duchy of Finland), containing 60 maps of the Russian Empire. Compiled and engraved by Colonel V.P. Piadyshev, it reflects the detailed mapping carried out by Russian military cartographers in the first quarter of the 19th century. The map shows population centers (six gradations by size), postal stations, roads (four types),borders with foreign lands,provincial and district borders,monasteries, factories, outposts, forts, and redoubts. Distances are shown in versts, a Russian measure, now no longer used, equal to 1.07 kilometers.Legends and place-names are in Russian and French. Orenburg was established in the early 18th century, and became an important center for the Ural Cossacks on the Imperial Russian frontier. It served as a staging ground for transcontinental expeditions into Central Asia and Siberia. The region endured the ravages of the Pugachev Rebellion in the era of Catherine the Great in 1773-74. Orenburg later served as a major railroad junction, and became a commercial and transport link to Central Asia and other points east. World Digital Library.