CONFOEDERATIO,

RESEARCH DIVISION (CRD).

SETTLEMENT GAZETTEER OF THE RUSSIAN CORE PRINCIPALITIES.

Supplementary Tabular Directory and Settlement Population Histories across Kievan Rus, Volga Bulgaria, Muscovy, and Imperial European Russia (10000BC - 1900AD).

8 November 2026 - Aust Kätzchen | austkaeztchen@confoederatio.org

Overview ​

This supplementary report presents the tabular settlement gazetteer (russian_core_principalities_settlements.json) accompanying the regional demographic review of the Russian Core Principalities (russian_core_principalities_areal_masks_and_bins.pdf). The JSON dataset contains 258 individual settlements across the eight regional clusters of European Russia (Novgorod and the Russian North, Vladimir-Suzdal and Rostov-Yaroslavl, Moscow and Tver, Ryazan and the Upper Oka, Smolensk and the Upper Dnieper, the Bryansk-Kursk-Voronezh Forest-Steppe, Nizhny Novgorod-Vyatka-Great Perm, and the Middle Volga and Cis-Urals) from 10000BC to 1900AD, formatted in the population_Stadester structure (keyed by "<Name>-Russia", with name, other_names, coords, country, key and positive-integer population maps).

Population figures are compiled from excavated dwelling floors and settlement plans for Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age and Early Iron Age sites [1][2][3][4][5][6], walled urban footprints (detinets and okolny gorod) and unfortified posad areas for Kievan Rus, Volga Bulgaria and Golden Horde towns [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17], and Muscovite cadastral books (pistsovye knigi), Imperial poll-tax revisions (revizii) and the 1897 First General Census for early modern and nineteenth-century towns [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26].

Prehistoric, Bronze Age, and Early Iron Age Settlements (10000BC - 800AD) ​

Kievan Rus, Volga Bulgaria, and Golden Horde Settlements (850 - 1500AD) ​

Muscovite and Imperial Settlements (1550 - 1900AD) ​

Complete Settlement Gazetteer ​

Sources ​