Cartography & GIS

Census boundary maps from my thesis, Alpha Nurseries terrain and hydrology analysis, and Tatarstan demographic visualizations.

Sample Maps

Terrain Analysis

Swiss-style hillshade with hypsometric tinting showing elevation and slope classification.

Alpha Nurseries

Hydrology & Drainage

Water flow patterns, pond locations, and irrigation potential assessment.

Alpha Nurseries

Birth Rate Trends (2012-2023)

Choropleth showing demographic change across Tatarstan districts.

Tatarstan Demographics Paper

More maps and an interactive atlas coming soon.

Historical Census Data

Soviet-GIS

Corpus of digitized Soviet census volumes (1897–1989) built for diachronic analysis of ethnic classification and census methodology. Uses a VLM pipeline to extract text from ~100GB of scanned archival material. Tracks shifts in taxonomic categories (like народность to национальность) and changes in the словари национальностей across census years.

Coverage Period1897 – 2010

Census Years0 datasets

FormatShapefiles + CSV

Available Datasets

Includes matched region crosswalks at 70% and 90% confidence thresholds for tracking demographic changes across boundary reforms.