Archive data on oak forests growing in XVIII century on the territory of the modern Novgorod Region

摘要

A research in the Russian State History Archives and in the archives of the Russian National Library has been made with the special attention to the inventory documents on ship-building oak forests that had grown on the territory of modern Novgorod Region. It allowed to define more precisely the sites of oak forests at the beginning of XVIII century (figs. 1, 2). This information is compared with the modern distribution of oak forests in Novgorod Region.