ARCHITECTURAL AND SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT OF OSTROG THE END OF THE 18TH CENTURY – 20S OF 20TH CENTURY

Abstract

The article is an attempt to generalize the available old cartographic sources in the shape of fixing and projecting plans of Ostrog town, which are describing its site development and spatial structure from the 18th to the begin of 20th centuries. 
 History of an old Ukrainian town of Osrtog was reflected in numerous written documents. However, its urban cartography is represented by a small number of primary sources. Nevertheless, several historical maps of this town allow a more detailed assessment of specific social and landscape factors that influenced the formation of its urban identity. The earliest of them is from 1760s. A significant array of more accurate and detailed, although also inaccurate, fixation plans of Ostroh, like other cities of Volhyn, was formed almost immediately after its entry into the Russian Empire. A new stage in the history of mapping of Ostrog Town (from 19th century) was associated with the use of technically more advanced, and therefore much more accurate, methods of topographical surveying. Of special interest are Ostrog's plans of a design direction rather than a fixation. Significant role in the study of old urban history of this town belongs to the first project plan from 1845, which provided for the introduction of significant changes in the development of the town on a regular basis and mass utilitarian construction. Such plans were implemented for other towns of the Volyn Governorate (e.g. Rivne, Lutsk, Starokostiantyniv, Kovel, Dubno, Kremenets). These and other innovations of the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries were recorded in great detail in the topographical plan of 1926. 
 This publication aims to substantiate a kind of summary of the multi-year process of spatial and planning evolution of Ostrog Town over nine centuries, starting from the first mention of it in chronicle sources, was made. 
 The relevance of the research topic is determined by an array of cartographic sources that are currently inaccessible to Ukrainian scientists and researchers in general.