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Corps of Military Topographers of the Russian Imperial Army
Russian: Корпус военных топографов Российской императорской армии
Active1822—1917
Country Russia
TypeMilitary Topography
Commanders
Notable
commanders		Friedrich von Schubert
Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg
Hans Karl von Diebitsch
Nikolay D. Artamonov
Military unit

The Corps of Military Topographers of the Russian Imperial Army was a branch of the Imperial Russian Army with a long history dating back to the early 18th century.

History

The Corps of Military Topographers was established in 1822 in order to centralize the carrying out of cartographic surveys on the territory of the Russian Empire under the leadership of the Military Topographic Depot. Its predecessor was the Quartermaster Unit that Peter the Great had organized in order to provide topographic support to the Imperial Russian Army in 1702.

Following the October 1917 Revolution the corps continued to exist initially under the same name until 1923, when it was renamed as the Military Topographic Service (Военно-Топографическую Службу) of the Red Army.

See also

Literature

  • Dolgov E.I., Sergeev S.V. Military Topographers of the Russian Army. - M .: ZAO "CDiPress", 2001 ISBN 5844300068

References

  1. Dolgov E.I., Sergeev S.V. The history of the branches of the topographic service. M .: Axiom, 2012. - pp. 26-27 ISBN 9785904031084 (in Russian)
  2. Byzov B. Ye. 50 years in the service of the Fatherland / Glushkov VV . - 2nd ed - Moscow: Institute of Political and Military Analysis, 2003. ISBN 5933490210 (in Russian)


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