The first attempts to create archaeological maps of Samara and Simbirsk governorates at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries

The paper discusses the experience of Russians and their attempt to create the first archaeological maps of Samara and Simbirsk Provinces, organized by V.N. Polivanov from Simbirsk and V.A. Miller and F.T. Yakovlev from Samara at the end of the XIX–XX centuries. The author introduces an archaeological map used by V.A. Miller and M.A. Miller into science. Due to the unpublished archival materials the author identifies the sources of information used to compile the archaeological map of the Simbirsk Province. For example, the use of a questionnaire describes the first steps in the centralized collection of information on ancient monuments in the Russian province in the 19^th century. The questionnaires of the Central Statistical Committee of 1873 and the Moscow Archaeological Society of 1888 are noted for solving the problem of creating archaeological maps of individual provinces. For example, the questionnaires of the Simbirsk provincial scientific archival commission of 1896 solved the map problem of the Simbirsk province. The time gap is considered between the creation of provincial scholars of archival commissions in Samara and Simbirsk, organizations that were not only in-charge of the preservation and processing of archival documents, but were involved in archaeological research and conducted activities to study antiquities. It is summarized that the Samara and Simbirsk provinces were at different levels of involvement in the all-Russian processes, but, one way or another, prerequisites were laid in both provinces for drawing up plans for further archaeological study of the two regions.