The Old Moscow road: geography with history

DOI: 10.35595/2414-9179-2025-3-31-501-522

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About the Authors

Pavel A. Korchagin

Institute of Humanitarian Studies, Perm Federal Research Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
13A, Lenina str., Perm, 614000, Russia,
E-mail: pakorchagin@gmail.com

Yulia V. Popova

Perm State National Research University,
15, Bukireva str., Perm, 614068, Russia,
E-mail: popovajvld@yandex.ru

Alexandr A. Rakshin

ANPO “Digital Technologies in Historical Research ‘ART’ ”,
39, Sovetskaya str., Perm, 614000, Russia,
E-mail: raksh@yandex.ru

Abstract

A comprehensive historical and geographical study of the places and circumstances of the construction of the Old Moscow Road on the Kai–Yukseevo–Kosa–Solikamsk segment was based on cartographic and written (memoir and reference) historical sources. Based on them, the coordinates of the turning points of the desired path were determined and cartographic materials were built using the ArcMap and Adobe Illustrator software. The results of the study are maps: “The Path of Pera Bogatyr and the Old Moscow Road”, “Patterns of Laying the Old Moscow Road” and three maps of individual sections of the path. The initial direction of the ancient water-portage route from Kai to Solikamsk was determined, including its possible variants when crossing the basin of the Kosa River. The patterns of transformation of this route into the overland Old Moscow Road were determined, which were expressed in straightening the route along watersheds, bypassing wetlands and Stroganov possessions. The southern borders of the Land of the Gainians, which ran along the watershed between the Vurlam River Basin and the Volva and Kuzhva River basins, were clarified. It was possible to definitively determine the places of the first consumption of pelmeni—the stopping points of the Kazarma (ur. Izby) and the Chasovnia (ur. Kovrizhka). The results of this study may be of interest not only to the academic community, but can also be used in historical and cultural tourism.

Keywords

Old Moscow road, waterway, Pera bogatyr, pelmeni, Land of the Gainians, border

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For citation: Korchagin P.A., Popova Yu.V., Rakshin A.A. The Old Moscow road: geography with history. InterCarto. InterGIS. Moscow: MSU, Faculty of Geography, 2025. V. 31. Part 3. P. 501–522. DOI: 10.35595/2414-9179-2025-3-31-501-522 (in Russian)