Ekaterinburg-Beresov, Russia/ekatberezov050
Previous | Home | NextClose-up of the Tsvetnoi quadrangle. The Tsvetnoi Mine was operational 1752-1802 and gave up tons of gold-bearing quartz. Today Tsvetnoi Mine no longer has any crocoite beyond a few slivers occasionally mixed with the clay. Tsvetnoi Mine is on the slopes of Uspenskaya Gorka (Assumption Hill) to the east. In the west part of the verst, town streets of Berezovsky are outlined. Of interest in Russian written history is the fact that "Tsvetnoi" in this old map is an example of the pre-Revolution Russian alphabet: the "yat" (b with a horizontal cross) was used to express the long vowel "e". Even Lomonosov declared by 1765 that the Russian "yat" was barely distinguishable from the ordinary "e," and by 1917 the letter was officially eliminated from the Russian alphabet (although some die-hard poets still use it occasionally). With the understanding that the first letter of the old Cyrillic word on the map is "ts," then the Western reader recognizes a letter-by-letter correspondence to "ts-v-e-t-n-o-i."
Map, courtesy, Ivan A. Baksheev.
