Habitats of the aboriginal population of the Kuznetsk district in the XVIII century according to cartographic sources
Based on the analysis of ancient maps with the involvement of a wide range of written sources, the article attempts to conduct a spatial reconstruction of the location of native Turkic peoples’ habitats in the Upper Ob region. The author traced the changes of information about the yasak volosts of the Kuznetsk district for 1710–1760s . The study of maps shows that during the 18th century information about the places of residence of the Turkic peoples became more and more fragmentary, and by the 1770s almost disappeared. Despite the fragmentation information, the presence of distortion in the names and inaccuracies in localization of objects, we have managed to identify the habitats of more than 50 ethnic groups on the modern topographic basis, and reproduce the boundaries of the yasak volosts of mid-century