Electronic Repository of Russian Historical Statistics, 18th - 21st centuries, https://ristat.org/, Version I (2020): Russian Empire Historical GIS Maps (1897)hdl:10622/DN9QDMIISH Data Collection2017-05-293Kessler, Gijs and Andrei Markevich, 2017, "Electronic Repository of Russian Historical Statistics, 18th - 21st centuries, https://ristat.org/, Version I (2020): Russian Empire Historical GIS Maps (1897)", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/DN9QDM, IISH Data Collection, V3Electronic Repository of Russian Historical Statistics, 18th - 21st centuries, https://ristat.org/, Version I (2020): Russian Empire Historical GIS Maps (1897)hdl:10622/DN9QDMKessler, Gijs and Andrei MarkevichRombert StapelIISH Data CollectionKessler, GijsKessler, Gijs2017-05-29Arts and HumanitiesSocial SciencesRussiaThese GIS maps were created for the visualisation of data on Russian social and economic development from the late 18th to the early twenty-first centuries, available at: <a href="https://ristat.org/">https://ristat.org/</a>. <br>The current dataset, pertaining to the Russian Empire in 1897 (both district and province or <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_governorates_of_the_Russian_Empire" target="_blank">governorate</a></em> boundaries) has been cleaned and prepared by Rombert Stapel (IISH). The file format (Geopackage) is an open, non-proprietary, platform-independent and standards-based data format for GIS and can be opened in most GIS software applications.Russian FederationFinlandPolandBelarusLatviaLithuaniaEstoniaUkraineMoldova, Republic ofGeorgiaArmeniaAzerbaijanTurkmenistanUzbekistanKazakhstanTajikistan41.1965821221863-180180.00000033527677.7322091562128DistrictProvinceThis dataset is made available under a Creative Commons CC0 license with the following additional/modified terms and conditions: These maps were created for the visualisation of regional data on the social and economic development of Russia 1800-2000 of the Electronic Repository of Russian Historical Statistics, available at: https://ristat.org/. You are free to use these maps for your own projects, but, please, make appropriate reference to the Electronic Repository of Russian Historical Statistics as their source.Kessler, Gijs and Andrei Markevich, Electronic Repository of Russian Historical Statistics, 18th - 21st centuries, https://ristat.org/, Version I (2020) Кесслер Хайс и Маркевич Андрей, Электронный архив Российской исторической статистики, XVIII – XXI вв., [Электронный ресурс] : [сайт]. — Режим доступа: https://ristat.org/, Версия I (2020)districts_1897.gpkgRussian Empire 1897 – Districts. Geopackage GIS file (gpkg). UTF-8, EPSG:4326 (WGS 84)application/octet-streamprovinces_1897.gpkgRussian Empire 1897 – Provinces. Geopackage GIS file (gpkg). UTF-8, EPSG:4326 (WGS 84)application/octet-stream