Journal of Geographical Sciences, Volume. 30, Issue 8, 1307(2020)

Reconstruction of cropland area in the European part of Tsarist Russia from 1696 to 1914 based on historical documents

Zhilong ZHAO1...2, Xiuqi FANG1, Yu YE1,*, Chengpeng ZHANG1 and Diyang ZHANG1 |Show fewer author(s)
Author Affiliations
  • 1Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
  • 2Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China
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    Location of the study area and the provincial-level units of ETR in 1900. The provincial boundary of ETR is cited from Gilbert (2012).
    Changes in cropland area, fractional cropland area and per capita cropland area of ETR during 1696-1914
    Distribution of the provincial fractional cropland area in ETR during 1719-1914
    Changes of the provincial fractional cropland area in ETR during 1719-1914
    Comparison of cropland area and per capita cropland area in ETR between this study and HYDE 3.2 from 1696 to 1914
    • Table 1.

      The data of ETR used in this study

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      Table 1.

      The data of ETR used in this study

      Time periodData content
      1696, 1725, 1763, 1796, 1856Total cropland area, total land area, total population
      1795Total land area
      1887, 1914Fractional cropland area, total land area
      1719, 1795, 1856, 1914Provincial population, sub-regional grain yield per unit area, provincial land area
      1711-1735, 1801-1810, 1851-1860, 1909-1913Total population
      Rural food and feed consumption, urban food and feed consumption, food exports, military food and feed consumption, food consumption in wine-making industry, seed consumption
    • Table 2.

      The number of migrants to different regions in ETR from 1678 to 1915 (104 people)

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      Table 2.

      The number of migrants to different regions in ETR from 1678 to 1915 (104 people)

      Region
      Timethe black soil region in the central ETRsurrounding area of the Volga River and the vicinity of Uralnew Russia regionnorth Caucasus region
      1678-17826327
      1782-185896.8151
      1870-191543.8137.8198.3
    • Table 3.

      Differences of fractional cropland area, per capita food and feed consumption, and cropland area in ETR from 1696 to 1914 between this study and other studies

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      Table 3.

      Differences of fractional cropland area, per capita food and feed consumption, and cropland area in ETR from 1696 to 1914 between this study and other studies

      IndexTimeRegionValues in this study (Vs)Values in other literature (Vl)Difference(Di)
      Fractional cropland area1696ETR7.80%7.90% (Tsvetkov, 1957)0.10 percentiles
      18th centuryNizhni Novgorod32.41%32.30% (Kukushkina et al., 2018)-0.11 percentiles
      18th centuryTver16.79%15% (Karimov and Nosova, 1999)-1.79 percentiles
      18th centuryRyazan27.93%29.65% (Matasov, 2016)1.72 percentiles
      1795Yaroslavl, Vladimir and Ryazan42.73% (Yaroslavl)37.00% (Vladimir)42.47% (Ryazan)20%-75% (Alyabina et al., 2015)-
      1795Chernigov61.28%60% -75% (James and French, 1983)-
      1796ETR16.80%16.70% (Tsvetkov, 1957)-0.10 percentiles
      1914Estonia26.26%25% (Tomson et al., 2015) - 31% (Poska et al., 2014)-
      Lithuania49.54%43.62% (Li, 1981)-5.92 percentiles
      Latvia34.46%32.31% (Li, 1981)-2.15 percentiles
      Per capita food and feed consumption1856ETR345.15 kg349.88kg (Mironov, 2012)1.37%
      Cropland area1914Kherson48889.10 km246684.70 km2 (Kondratieff, 2017)-4.51%
      Saratov29348.85 km228229.00 km2(Mironov, 2012)-3.82%
      European Russia97.62 (104 km2)69.80-104.70 (104 km2) * (Li, 1981)-
      Ukraine32.23 (104 km2)27.95-41.93 (104 km2) * (Li, 1981)-
      Moldova2.90 (104 km2)2.07-3.11 (104 km2) * (Li, 1981)-
      Belarus5.55 (104 km2)4.54-6.81(104 km2) * (Li, 1981)-
      ETR1473955.78 km21449663.45 km2 (Kondratieff, 2017)-1.65%
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    Zhilong ZHAO, Xiuqi FANG, Yu YE, Chengpeng ZHANG, Diyang ZHANG. Reconstruction of cropland area in the European part of Tsarist Russia from 1696 to 1914 based on historical documents[J]. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2020, 30(8): 1307

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    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Dec. 28, 2019

    Accepted: Apr. 30, 2020

    Published Online: Apr. 21, 2021

    The Author Email: YE Yu (yeyuleaffish@bnu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s11442-020-1783-y

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