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AKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
The author would like to thanks to Mr. Marcus Hauser from 
Pamir Archive (www.angelfire.com/nb/russianmaps) for the 
opportunity to work with map scanning copy ‘Detailed Atlas of 
Russian Empire with plans of main cities’ dated from 1871 
year and map of the French government ‘which covers whole 
Asia’ in scale 1:1000000 dated from 1904 year. Author also 
expresses his gratitude to Dr. Josef Benedikt from 
‘GEOLOGIC’ (www.geologic.at) Vienna, Austria for his help, 
translation from latin language of old map dated from 1730 
year and consultations.