Water Supply to the Small Cities in the Northern Region of the Russian Empire, 1890–1910s (Vologda, Staraya Russa and Cherepovets)
Water Supply to the Small Cities in the Northern Region of the Russian Empire, 1890–1910s (Vologda, Staraya Russa and Cherepovets)
Author(s): Anna AgafonovaSubject(s): History, Economic history, Local History / Microhistory, Political history, Modern Age, Recent History (1900 till today), 19th Century, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Between Berlin Congress and WW I
Published by: Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach
Keywords: Russian Cities; Russian Empire; Urban Environmental History; Urban Sanitation; Urban Water Supply; History of Technology;
Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of the process of the organization of centralized water supply systems in small Russian towns at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. The causes and the process of pipeline building in three small cities, each of which became significant transport hubs by 1914 and had populations of less than 50,000 people, are described in the research. The research interest in these towns is led by understanding how the transport position of small cities promoted the improvement of water supplies in them. It was essential due to the growth of the urban populations and increasing cases of cholera epidemics in transport-hub cities.
Journal: The City and History (Mesto a dejiny until 2019)
- Issue Year: 9/2020
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 45-68
- Page Count: 24
- Language: English