Un plan militar rusesc al orașului Roman și împrejurimilor sale din 1770
A Russian military plan of the town of Roman and its surroundings in 1770

Summary/Abstract: In this article, we present an unknown plan of the town of Roman and its surroundings, provided by the Russian State Military-Historical Archive in Moscow (RGVIA). Russian military engineers made the plan in 1770, during the Russian military occupation of Moldavia in the Russo-Turkish War (1769–1774). Our research objectives are mainly to describe and publish that plan, outline the historical context in which it appeared and highlight its topographical information. The plan captures an area of about 250 km2, which includes the Roman town and 12 nearby villages. It depicts a geographical landscape with noticeable differences from the current one, especially in terms of the hydrographic network, and it shows the geographic forms, the roads, the structure of the town and the locations of ecclesiastical and military objectives. The Russian military plan of the town of Roman from 1770 can be considered the oldest topographical survey of this urban centre in Moldavia.

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