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Color Photos of Putyvl in 1904-1905
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Putivl is a small town with a population of about 12,000 people, located in Sumy Oblast, approximately 80 km northwest of the city of Sumy.
The unique photographs presented below were taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky, a pioneer of color photography in the Russian Empire, near the town of Putivl in 1904-1905. At that time, its population was about 10 thousand people and it was part of the Kursk Governorate of the Russian Empire. On October 16, 1925, Putyvl and its surrounding villages were transferred from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR. Source: The Legacy of S. M. Prokudin-Gorsky.
The town of Putyvl of the Russian Empire.
The rest of the photographs are captioned as having been taken in the Putyvl area.
Tags: Sumy oblast
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