The Dacha Reports

One decade after annexation, the land regime in the former khanate was a jumble of contested claims, suspect documentation, unfinished surveys, and inconsistent records. In an attempt to impose order, Governor Zhegulin called for a series of reports listing all dacha grants. These were produced in 1794, along with the first set of detailed maps of the province. 

According to the initial wave of reports, there were 33 surveyed dachas in Simferopol uezd (96,368 desiatinas of arable land and 31,132 desiatinas non-arable), 38 in Feodosiia uezd (78,894 des / 15,334 des), 3 in Evpatoriia (24,400 des / 4,886 des), 2 in Perekop uezd (5,700 des / 159 des). In sum, 76 dachas had been surveyed, and documents issued, in the peninsular uezdy. Dozens more did not meet those criteria.

[In the two mainland uezdy the situation was much different. In Dneprovsk alone there were 139 dachas amounting to 1,633,499 desiatinas of arable (including 213,000 desiatinas left behind by the "Kirgiz") and 296,339 desiatinas of non-arable land. In Melitopol 74 dachas covered 1,091,500 desiatinas of arable and 98,745 desiatinas of non-arable land. Though dwarfing the peninsular uezdy in terms of acreage, in the mainland uezdy the vast majority of dachas were unsurveyed, unsettled, and "lying empty" at the end of Catherine II's reign.]

In 1802 a new set of reports came out. These listed 126 surveyed and registered dacha grants. 

This project includes 121 of the dachas listed in these reports. Those that went unsurveyed or unregistered, or whose listings provided no formal name, grantee, or location information, have been set aside.