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March 8, 2016 2016-03-08T12:00:00Z 2016-03-08T12:00:00Z

A few years ago I made a compilation for you oldest photographs capital Cities. Since then, there have been many more of them in the public domain. I have chosen the most interesting and beautiful, and now I invite you to take a proper walk around Moscow of the 19th century and understand what has changed in a century and a half, and what has remained the same. Almost all of the photographs in this post were taken before 1875, with the exception of undated photographs and views from railway albums.

So, the oldest photographs of Moscow! Second edition, enlarged and corrected.

oldest famous photo Moscow. It is a painted and retouched daguerreotype of Lerebour, made in 1842. The photo shows the initial stage of the construction of the Grand Kremlin Palace. 1842

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The first daguerreotype photographs of Moscow were taken as early as 1839: “On July 5, 1839, in the supplement No. 53 to the Moskovskie Vedomosti newspaper, Muscovites read an amazing message from the store owner Karl Andreevich Beckers: DAGUERREOTYPE. This machine, invented by M. Dagger in Paris, by means of which a person who cannot draw can photograph all sorts of views with amazing accuracy, is already known everywhere from numerous descriptions in all newspapers and magazines; The Beckers brothers' shop on Kuznetsky Most has been entrusted (one in Moscow) with accepting subscriptions for this car. The price of the entire apparatus with instruction is 550 rubles. ass., except for the duty and transportation from Paris to Moscow, with the payment of half the money in advance; it will turn out before the end of navigation ...».

One of the oldest daguerreotypes depicting Moscow. The image does not yet show the bell tower of the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker on Bersenevka (it will be built in 1854). On the website of the French Museum of Photography, this photograph dates from 1842.

Painted daguerreotype by Noel Lerebour 1842, first famous shot Church of the Intercession on the Moat. In the original edition, the caption "Daguerreotype Lerebours" is visible under the picture.

An 1852 photograph by Roger Fenton showing the 17th century Great Stone Bridge. This unique architectural monument of pre-Petrine Moscow was destroyed in 1858 with the standard wording "because of dilapidation." On the remnants of the old pillars, a new iron bridge was built, which in 1938 was replaced by the current one.

One of the first photographs of the Kremlin, 1852

One of the first photos Bolshoi Theater. The photo was taken after the fire of 1853 and subsequent restoration.

Panorama of Theater Square before the coronation of Alexander II, 1856. Decorations designed by Albert Kavos for the upcoming celebrations and illuminations were built around the perimeter of the square.

On Red Square, there are also illuminating structures in honor of the coronation.

Ascension Monastery (destroyed in 1929) and the Spasskaya Tower, then still white.

View of Red Square, 1870-1888. The Spasskaya Tower is already red.

Ilyinka. Exchange Square in 1864.

Resurrection Square (now Revolution Square), 1870-1875

Chelnokov trade at the Resurrection Gate, 1874

Panorama of Moscow from the Kremlin, 1856 (clickable!). One of the first view photographs of the city.

View from Spasskaya Tower, 1860-1863

View from the Ivan the Great Bell Tower towards Shviva Gorka, 1860. The walls of the Kremlin are still white, but the spinner is being repaired: in this section of the wall, the plinth was redone and 58 battlements were re-arranged.

View of the Kremlin from Shviva Gorka. Fenton, 1852

View from the newly built bell tower of the Church of St. Nicholas on Bersenevka. From the comments: "The ancient embankment chambers at the church (with kokoshniks, in the foreground) still stand in a rebuilt form. On the right is the original Big Stone Bridge (built in the 80s of the 17th century). In 1857-59 it will be replaced by a new one, which, in turn, turn, will stand until 1938. Large, significant city objects are not yet drowned in dense buildings.From left to right on the horizon: the portico of the Kirpichnikova gymnasium at 12 Znamenka (now the Gnessin Music School); the same Znamenka (rebuilt); even more to the right - the cathedral and the bell tower of the Exaltation of the Cross Convent (if anyone does not know - it stood opposite the Voentorg, Vozdvizhenka, 7); in the center of the frame - the Pashkov House and in front of it - the bell tower of St. Nikola Streletsky; then - c. Signs at Sheremetev Dvor; at the right edge - a complex of buildings of the University - Mokhovaya, 9 (still with a side portico) and Mokhovaya, 11 (only the dome is visible). ).Above the parapet bridge - the current mansion at 1, Kremlin Embankment (only with the original, more decent mezzanine)".

"View from across the Moskva River (from the Ustyinsky Bridge) towards the Taganka. Recognized in the photo (from left to right): the estate of Tutolmin; the unpreserved church of Cosmas and Damian, and next to it - the estate of the Shapkins / V.P. Shchukin / M.F. Mikhailov, then (in the foreground) is the Mazurinskaya almshouse, and behind it is the Church of St. Nicholas in Kotelniki, the unpreserved Church of the All-Merciful Savior in Chigis, the unpreserved Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Gonchary, the Novospassky Monastery ".

Domes of churches in the Kremlin. Again Fenton and again 1852. From the comments: "Unlike Lerebour's 1842 daguerreotypes, this photograph was taken using the then new technology - on waxed paper, and not on a silver-plated metal plate. The exposure time was significantly reduced, but the clarity of the image was much worse than that of the daguerreotypes".

Photograph by Fenton "Outer Walls of the Kremlin, Moscow". The Cathedral of Christ the Savior has not yet been completed.

Construction of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Fenton, 1852.

In 1860, the outer scaffolding was dismantled, and the Cathedral of Christ the Savior for the first time appeared before Muscovites in its grandeur. In 1862, a bronze balustrade was installed on the roof, which was not in the original project.

View of Moscow from the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, 1867 (clickable panorama!)

Rumyantsev Museum, 1850-1880. There seem to be water carts in front of the building.

Strastnoy Monastery, 1855. Pushkin Square is now on this site. By the way, for some time the monument to Pushkin (it was erected in 1880) stood in front of gate church. Here is what Valentin Kataev recalled:

"The monument [to Pushkin] at that time still stood in its rightful place, at the head of Tverskoy Boulevard, facing the unusually elegant Passion Monastery of a pale lilac color, and surprisingly suited its small golden onions. [We] are also accustomed to the old multi-armed lanterns , among which the figure of Pushkin with a bowed curly head, in a cloak with an accordion of straight folds, was drawn so beautifully against the backdrop of the Strastnoy Monastery".

With coming Soviet power the monastery was turned into the Central Anti-Religious Museum of the Union of Atheists of the USSR, and in 1937 all the buildings of the monastery were demolished during the reconstruction of the street. Gorky (Tverskaya) and Pushkinskaya Square. Since the time of the empire, only the name Strastnoy Boulevard has been preserved.

Pipe Square, 1855-1860s. From the comments on Pastvu: "According to the very" juicy/savory" everyday writer of Moscow of the 19th century, V.A. Gilyarovsky, who happened, by the way, to make mistakes both in dates and in Moscow geography (see the book "Moscow and Muscovites", chapter "On the Pipe") , then here in front of us in this photo is still the so-called "Afonkin tavern", on the site of which, after the reforms of 1861 by Alexander II, the Hermitage Olivier restaurant was erected by mutual agreement between the merchant Pegov and the chef from France Lucien Olivier.

Kulishki, 1860-1870. Next to the Church of All Saints is now the entrance to the Kitai-Gorod metro station.

Moscow City Hall) This is how the palace of the Governor-General looked before the reconstruction and construction of the superstructure in the 1940s.

Hotel "Dresden" in Stoleshnikov Lane

Kuznetsky bridge from Bolshaya Dmitrovka

Let's look at Moscow, which cannot be seen anywhere else. The photo shows the temporary People's Theater on Kitay-Gorod, presented by the Department of Care for the Moral Improvement of Workers. This is one of the exhibits of the Polytechnic Exhibition of 1872.

Pavilion of Peter the Great, built for the Polytechnic Exhibition of 1872. Actually, on the anniversary of the first Russian emperor(200 years since the birth) this exhibition was timed. The exhibition simultaneously presented agricultural, industrial, scientific, military and cultural achievements. Russian Empire. Over the three summer months, a total of 750 thousand people visited it, and then some of the exhibits were placed in the Historical and Polytechnical museums.

Sukharev tower, 1861-1872. The tower stood "at the mouth" of Sretenka since 1695, but in 1934 it was destroyed during the reconstruction of Sukharevskaya Square (or rather, two squares at once, Bolshaya and Malaya). Now in its place there is a stele in memory of the tower.

The triumphal gates of Beauvais were then located on the Tverskaya Zastava, near the Brest (now Belorussky) railway station. In 1936, they were dismantled during the reconstruction of the square. On Kutuzovsky Prospekt there is now a copy of them made from more modern materials.

Red Gate, 1855-1860. The decor contains the monograms of Nicholas I with crowns, later replaced by the monograms of Catherine without crowns. By the way, they were going to demolish the gate back in 1854, but they were defended by engineer-general Delvig, cousin poet. As a result, the arch was destroyed during the expansion of the Garden Ring in 1927.

Even on Red Square, the building of the Zemsky order once stood, it is also the building of the Main Pharmacy and the first building of Moscow University. But in 1874 it was dismantled, and the Historical Museum was built in its place.

"View of Red Square in 1872, taken photographically before the demolition of the building of government offices, located on the site on which the Historical Museum was built".

Start of construction of the Historical Museum, 1875.

Many photographs of Moscow in the third quarter of the 19th century are devoted to the railway. This picture shows the Kryukovo station in 1855-1864. There was a village of the same name, later the village of the same name was formed by railway workers. In 1938 they were merged into an urban-type settlement, which then became part of Zelenograd.

Station Khimskaya in 1855-1862. 17.4 versts (18.56 km) from Moscow, namely from the Nikolaevsky railway station. By the way, the distance has not changed much since then. But the name has changed.

Locomotive depot and water tower of the Nikolaev railway. From the comments: "The first locomotive depot in Moscow was built in 1847-49 according to the design of Konstantin Ton. The building has round shape, in its middle there was a turntable, designed to turn the locomotives and direct them to the desired stall. In total there were 20 stalls or, as they are now called, ditches. Instead of another stall, a through tunnel was arranged for the passage of steam locomotives into the building. A dome of metal structures was arranged over the turntable. Such a layout of locomotive buildings did not last long - by late XIX centuries began to build rectangular, and then fan-shaped buildings. In total, nine round depots were built, in Moscow such a building is the only one".

In 2011, the depot was purchased by Russian Railways, and in 2013 it was partially demolished. The court, at the request of Arkhnadzor, suspended its demolition; in 2014, representatives of Russian Railways announced the reconstruction of the Circular Depot, but what will happen to it in the end is unknown.

Half-station "Lublino". Colorized photo from the album of views of the Moscow-Kursk railway. According to some sources, the album was released in 1878, according to others - in 1885.

Railway bridge across the Moscow River on the site of the current Upper and Lower Saburovsky bridges.

Andronikov viaduct (railroad) across the Yauza River, built in 1865.

Station of the Kursk railway. The station was located not far from the current Kursk railway station, but somewhat to the north, in the area of Puteisky dead end, where huge glass offices now stand.

Let's run around the outskirts. An apiary on the territory of the current Izmailovsky Park.

Dorogomilovsky Bridge, 1860-1867, phototype by Scherer, Nabgolts & Co. From the comments: "wooden bridge, which was dismantled during the flood, stood until 1864. This bridge was much lower than the subsequent metal and stone bridges, which is why the left bank (“Vargunikha Mountain”, “Vargunikhina Mountain”) rises strongly above it. Now the relief is not so noticeable (although it is still felt). Above the bridge - the temples of John the Baptist in Krechetniki (to the left) and St. Nicholas on Schepy (to the right)".

Construction of the Perervinskaya Dam The first locking system on the Moskva River was built in 1874-1877 joint stock company"Partnership of the Moskvoretsk Tuer Shipping Company". The dams made the Moscow River navigable for 154 km, from the Perervinskaya dam to the mouth.

Moscow zoo. The photo was taken before the 1890s, when the Small Pond finally separated from the Big Pond. Previously, it was a single reservoir.

View of the current Medvedkovo from the current Mytishchi

View from the Kuntsevo estate to the village of Krylatskoye, 1865-1877

"View of Preobrazhensky from the western side at the present time. The image is made from the site of the former Nagorny Palace of His Imperial Highness in Novo-Preobrazhensky", 1879 From the comments: "Behind the General (Elektrozavodskaya) street, you can see the streets of Buzheninov, Suvorovskaya, the 9th Company. The photographer stood on the building of the Jean-Pierre Moussi-Giraud manufactory. Looking through the bell tower and gate temple on Preobrazhensky Val, in possession No. 25, and the Assumption Prayer House, towers and a house with lion gates in possession No. 17 along the shaft ".

It turns out that even then there were minibuses in Moscow! This line, for example, was filmed in Serebryany Bor.

From the essay by Pyotr Bogatyrev "Moscow antiquity": "Rulers are the landmark of the then Moscow. No cruel inquisitor could invent more excruciating torture like riding in these carriages, but patient Muscovites drove and paid more money for their flour. Such disgrace as these rulers can hardly be found anywhere. These rulers were impossibly dirty, with constantly ringing nuts, with loose wheels, with drunken impudent drivers, often with crippled horses, thin and weak to the point that they staggered on the go. "And it should have been, as usual, a little differently - from the newspaper "Moskovskie Vedomosti" for 1847: "... starting from September this year, 1847, riding in public carriages has been opened for us and, moreover, on the following grounds; accommodating from 6 to 10 passengers, each carriage will be driven by two strong, beautiful horses...".

Here is an excerpt from the rules for the rulers: "The crew does not wait for the full number of passengers, but leaves immediately if at least one person takes a seat; while following, according to the sign given by the conductor, the crew immediately stops and accepts the passenger. Each passenger, having reached the place he needs, has the right to stop the carriage and get out...".

By the way, the rulers rode not only on the outskirts, but also in the very center. For example, "minibuses" parked right at St. Basil's Cathedral!

Most of the photos for this post are from Pastvu, the largest archive of historical images.

Probably everyone is interested in seeing the oldest picture of their city. Thanks to the digitization of photo archives and old albums for last years Internet users have access to the oldest layer of photo heritage. It is time to systematize our discoveries.
Currently there are more than 110 cities in alphabetical order. I would be grateful to readers for any clarifications and additions, because this catalog is regularly updated.

ARZAMAS
The oldest known photo of Arzamas was taken before 1878:

ARMAVIR
The oldest known photographs of Arzamas were taken in 1875. They depict the railway. station:

LARGE

ARKHANGELSK
According to information from the book of E.P. Bronnikova "Arkhangelsk photography (1847-1931)", the earliest known photograph of Arkhangelsk, is stored in the state archive of the Arkhangelsk region. It was made, presumably, by Emmanuil Gotardovich Meller, who was engaged in photography in Arkhangelsk until 1871. Unfortunately, there is no picture in the book.

ASTRAKHAN
The first known photographs of Astrakhan date back to 1866-67, exact year shooting has not yet been established.
View of the Astrakhan Kremlin from the south, Atelier S.M. Vishnevsky:

BAKU
The oldest known photo of Baku dates back to 1861:

LARGE

According to other sources, the oldest photograph is this photo of the Baku Bay in 1862:

BATUMI
The oldest known photo is from 1868.
Batum. Loading ships with oil products. D. I. Ermakov:

BAKHCHISARAY
The very first pictures of the city were taken in 1869 during the trip of the Prince of Wales.
Here is one of them:

LARGE

BELOZERSK
The very first photographs of the city were taken in 1865.
View from the rampart of the ancient fortification to the city; in the background - buildings of the Ministry of Railways and White Lake. Belozersk:

Blagoveshchensk
The oldest known photo is from 1865-1875:

BOLKHOV
This city of the Oryol province was first photographed in 1863.
Bolkhov. From the collection of the Ivan Turgenev Reserve in Spassky-Lutovinovo:

BRYANSK
The first "photo portrait" of Bryansk. View of the embankment from the Pokrovskaya mountain. Photo by Rob. Dralya, 1871:

LARGE

BUKHARA
The first photographs in Bukhara were made by A.S. Murenko back in 1858, but it is not yet clear whether there are landscape photographs of the city in his photographs.

VELIKIY NOVGOROD- see Novgorod

VILNIUS
Vilna (now Vilnius) began to be actively filmed in 1860. Among the series of first photographs was this classic view from the Castle Hill:

VITEBSK
The oldest known photograph is dated 1860. This is the view of the street. Castle work of Yurkovskiy:

VLADIVOSTOK
The very first photographs of Vladivostok date back to 1876. Here is one of them:

VLADIKAVKAZ
The oldest known photo is from 1869 or 1870:

High definition panorama

VLADIMIR
The oldest known photographs of Vladimir were taken in 1862 by the French photographer Ferdinand Bureau, but they are not yet available on the Web, with the exception of one photo with a tunnel under the railway:

VOLGOGRAD- see Tsaritsyn

VOLOGDA
The oldest known photo was taken around 1860.
Boulevard on Cathedral Square:

VORONEZH

View of B. Dvoryanskaya Avenue of the Revolution and Myasnitskaya-Teatralnaya from Koltsovsky Square towards the tower of the South Eastern Railway:

VYBORG
The oldest photo is from the 1860s.

LARGE

VYTEGRA
The very first photographs of Vytegra were taken in 1865.
View of the building of the District Board on the left and the drawbridge across the Vytegra River:

VYAZMA
The earliest known photograph of Vyazma was allegedly taken by M. Nastyukov in 1870:

Vyatka
The earliest known photographs of Vyatka were taken no later than 1874 by V.E.Bishnevsky and published in an appendix to the book by Count G.A. Miloradovich "Vyatka and its sights" 1874. Here is one of them:

GOMEL
The oldest known photo is from the 1860s.
I.F. Palace Paskevich in Gomel. Facade and towers from the side of the square. Photo by Ivan Bianchi:

GRODNO
The oldest known photo is a panorama of 1860 (or 1862?) of the year:

DNEPROPETROVSK- see Yekaterinoslav

DONETSK
The oldest known photo is from 1872.
Yuzovka General form factory First blast furnace, 1872:

EKATERINODAR
The oldest known photograph of the city dates back to 1864 and was made, presumably by the photographer A.F. Rylsky.
Solemn prayer in honor of graduation Caucasian War in October 1864 on the square in front of the Resurrection Cathedral in Yekaterinodar:

EKATERINOSLAV

Ekaterinoslav. Holy Trinity Cathedral:

DACE
The oldest known photo is from the 1880s.
View of Yelets from across the Bystraya Pine River:

YEREVAN
The oldest known photo is from the period 1872-74.
Yerevan. Portal of the Sardar mosque. 1872-1874:

ZHYTOMYR
The very first known photograph of the city was taken in the early 1870s.
Zhitomir. View of the city center from the right bank of the Kamenka River. A. Zelinsky, 1871-73:

IZHEVSK
The oldest known photograph of Izhevsk was taken by A. Vyatkin in 1868.
Izhevsk plant. General's House and St. Michael's Chapel on Gora, 1868:

IZBORSK
The oldest known photo is from 1871.
View of the Izborsk fortress. K.I. Kamprad, 1871:

IRKUTSK
The capital of the vast province has been in the lens of photographers since the very beginning of the 1860s. The oldest photographs of the city were made by A.K. Hoffman.
Gostinodvorskaya Square in Irkutsk, 1860:

Kazan
The oldest photograph of the city is the daguerreotype "View of the Imperial Kazan University", dated 1845-55:

KALININGRAD- see Koenigsberg

KALUGA
Incredibly, the oldest known photographs of Kaluga date back to no later than 1848! Throughout the territory of the former Russian Empire, earlier photographs have been preserved only for Moscow.
Reproductions of several daguerreotypes of Kaluga, made no later than 1848, were published in the album "The city of Kaluga, lithographed from daguerreotype photographs" (Edition by A. Prevost. At the Police Bridge in the Dutch Church. 1848 Lit. Pe. Ivanov), as well as in the Commemorative Book of the Kaluga Province for 1852 with the note "Figure from a daguerreotype". Unfortunately, the author is not known.

Kaluga, Blagoveshchenskaya street, no later than 1848:

KALYAZIN

KAMENETS-PODILSKY
Small, but very interesting in terms of architectural monuments, the city of Kamyanets-Podilsky began to be filmed no later than 1859. Here is one of his first photographic views:

KARGOPOL
The oldest known photograph of Kargopol was taken by A.F. Gilferding in 1871 or 1872.
Kargopol. Christ Church Cathedral. Hilferding Alexander Fedorovich (1831-1872):

KAUNAS
The oldest known photo was taken in 1861:

KASHIN
The oldest photo of Kashin was taken in the 1870s by F. Alekseev:

KERCCH
The first pictures of Kerch were taken during the period Crimean War when the city was occupied by an English landing. To date, 4 such photos are known.
For example, a view of Kerch from Mount Mithridates. James Robertson, 1855:

LARGE

Königsberg
The oldest known photo (daguerreotype) of Königsberg dates back to 1843:

KYIV
The oldest photography of Kyiv was made in 1852 by the famous English photographer Roger Fenton. Recently, more than 10 images from this series have leaked to the Web, but almost all are still available in very poor resolution.
As an example, let's take a calotype with St. Andrew's Church, which is in a more or less decent form:

KIMRY
The earliest known photograph of the city (at that time still a village) of Kimry was taken by Mikhail Nastyukov in 1867:

LARGE

KIRILLOV
The earliest known photograph of the city dates back to 1865.
View of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery on Siversky Lake. Kirillov, 1865:

LARGE

KIROV- see Vyatka

KISLOVODSK
This 1859 photograph of Kislovodsk is the first known photograph of the Caucasian mineral waters. The author is a lieutenant general, a participant in the Caucasian War, an outstanding amateur photographer Count Ivan Grigoryevich Nostits (1820-1905):

KISHINEV
The oldest known pictures of Chisinau made in 1867. Here is one of them:

KOLOMNA
The oldest photograph of Kolomna dates back to 1863 and was taken in connection with the construction of a bridge near the Staro-Golutvin Monastery:

However, for the historical center of Kolomna, the oldest photograph is from 1869. Brusensky convent. Holy Cross Cathedral:

For a detailed commentary on this image, see the website of the Krasnoyarsky Rabochiy newspaper: http://www.krasrab.com/archive/2013/09/05/16/view_article

KURSK
The earliest photograph of the city known to date, which depicts the Sergiev-Kazan Cathedral, is dated 1858; its original is kept in the Church-Archaeological Office of the Moscow Theological Academy in Sergiev Posad and has not yet been published on the Internet.
Of the available (albeit poor quality) images of the Course, the oldest dates from around 1860:

LIPETSK
The oldest known photo is from 1860.
Lipetsk. Church of the Nativity, 1860:

LODEYNOE FIELD
The earliest known photographs of the city were taken in 1865.
Lodeynoye Field. "View of the new stone church with a bell tower":

LARGE

LUGANSK
Perhaps the oldest known photograph of Luganskaya is this view of the Cathedral of the Kazan Icon Mother of God, which is not yet dated:

LUTSK
The oldest known photo is from 1870.
Lutsk. Brigid Monastery:

MINSK
The oldest known photograph was published in Photographic Illustration for 1863 (No. 8-9), but could have been taken in 1861-62:

MOZHAYSK
The earliest known photographs of the city were taken by Mikhail Nastyukov in 1870:

MOSCOW
As you know, the very first picture of Moscow was taken and put on public display in the window of one of the photo studios back in 1840. Alas, it did not survive.
Of the surviving and accurately dated photographs of Moscow, the oldest is a daguerreotype by the visiting French artist Lerebour, made in December 1841:

Since photo printing did not exist then, this photo has come down to us in the form of a book engraving.

Of the "raw" photographs of Moscow, the oldest is the daguerreotype "House in the estate of Petrovsko-Razumovskoye", dated from 1840 to 1847:

According to the oldest photographs of Moscow, we have .

MURORM
The oldest known photograph of Murom dates back to 1862-63. It captures the Trinity Monastery:

The author of this photo is unknown.

MYSHKIN
The earliest known photograph was taken by Mikhail Nastyukov in 1866 or 1867:

NEVEL
The earliest known photograph was taken in 1872:
Nevel. Castle street. View from the castle, 1872:

NIZHNY NOVGOROD
Although two pictures were found on the web Nizhny Novgorod the work of Ferdinand Bureau (Ferdinand Bureau) 1862, but . However, there was a picture that was taken a year earlier. Alas, the image quality is also terrible.
Nizhny Novgorod. Betancourt Canal. Spassky Old Fair Cathedral. Chinese ranks Murenko A.S., 1861:

NIZHNY TAGIL
The earliest known photograph was probably taken in 1879:

LARGE

NOVGOROD

With the participation of the same Yu.P. Lvov, another album dedicated to Novgorod was created - “Album of Novgorodian views and antiquities, taken by photographers general staff in 1862." Photographing, initiated by General M.P. Rudnev, was carried out by photographers of the topographic bureau of the General Staff P. Shcherbakov and K. Nizovsky in the summer of 1862.
In the earliest known photo, we see the preparation of the Millennium of Russia monument for the opening in 1862:

NOVOCHERKASSK
The first photographs were taken in 1861 or 1862.
Ascension Military Cathedral in Novocherkassk, 1861-1862:

ODESSA
The first known photographs of the city date back to the 1860s.
View of the city theater from Rishelievskaya street, 1860s:

OMSK
In some sources, the oldest panorama (and in general a photograph) of the city dates back to 1862, in others - 1862-63:

ORENBURG
The first photograph of Orenburg was taken by A.S. Murenko in 1858:

An imprint from a daguerreotype in the album “From Orenburg through Khiva to Bukhara. Light painting of the artillery of Lieutenant Murenko ", which is stored at the Institute of History material culture RAS (St. Petersburg).

Peter and Paul Cathedral in the city of Orel. From the collection of the Ivan Turgenev reserve in Spasskoye-Lutovinovo, an album of photographs taken in 1863 by Eduard Schlessing:

PERESLAVL-ZALESSKY
The oldest known photograph of the city was taken by F. Dubovsky no later than 1883:

On it there is an old building of Gethsemane in the Goritsky monastery, dismantled into bricks in 1883.

PETROZAVODSK
The oldest accurately dated photograph of Petrozavodsk is a photo with a monument to Peter I on the Round Square immediately after its installation, 1873:

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY
The oldest photographs of the city were probably taken in the early 1880s.
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky from the album of Dybovsky B.I., 1882:

POLOTSK
If neighboring Vitebsk has been actively filmed since 1860, then the oldest photographs of Polotsk have not yet been found. Only one is known, dated to the 1870s, and even then in very poor resolution:

PSKOV
The oldest known photographs date back to 1871.
Pskov. Trinity Cathedral. Karl Kamprad, 1871:

PYATIGORSK
The oldest known photo of Pyatigorsk was taken by D.M. Rudnev in the period 1870-1875:

LARGE

RZHEV
The oldest known photograph of the city was taken on July 3, 1872:

Photo of the Kolberg brothers in Rzhev.

RIGA
According to the description, the oldest Riga photo is considered to be "Smilshu Gate (sandy), inner portal" by Alfons Bermanis (Alfonu Bērmani), 1854, but it has not yet been found.
The oldest photographs available are dated 1857 and show medieval fortifications, which just then began to be demolished:

ROMANOV-BORISOGLEBSK

The first picture of the city was taken by M.P. Nastyukov in 1866 or in 1867:

ROSTOV
Oddly enough, no photographs of Rostov the Great have yet been found before 1881, when I.F. Barshchevsky.
View of the southern group of monuments of the Rostov Kremlin before restoration, 1881:

ROSTOV-ON-DON
The oldest photographs of Rostov-on-Don were taken in 1866 by Alexander Viktorovich Vladimirsky (Vladsky) (1838-1905), but they are not yet available on the Internet.
The oldest known photograph from the published dates back to 1869.
Rostov. Photo from the Album of Views of Kursk-Kharkovo-Azovskaya railway, 1869:

Rybinsk
The earliest known photograph was taken by Mikhail Nastyukov in 1867:

RYAZAN
The oldest known photograph dates from around 1865.
Ryazan. View of Astrakhanskaya street:

SAMARA
The oldest known photograph of Samara dates back to 1860 and captures the city center before the construction of the Cathedral:

SAMARKAND
The first survey of Samarkand was carried out in the period of 1870-71. The entire series is available in high resolution on the Library of Congress website.
Bibi-Khanym Mosque, circa 1870:

SAINT PETERSBURG
It is documented that the first photograph (daguerreotype) of St. Petersburg was taken already in October 1839 (!) in the year of the official invention of photography. It depicted a building under construction Saint Isaac's Cathedral. Alas, that daguerreotype disappeared without a trace.
On the other hand, an almost equally ancient photograph of the city has recently appeared on the Web, which dates back to the period 1840-1845.
The building of the wing of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. I.Kh.Gamel:

SARATOV
The earliest known photographs of the city date back to 1863 and were taken by Anton Murenko.
Saratov. View from the Volga. Murenko A.S., 1863:

LARGE

SEVASTOPOL
The first pictures of Sevastopol were taken in 1855 by the Anglo-French invaders, among whom was famous photographer Roger Fenton. Today, about a hundred of these pictures are already known, and more and more new ones constantly pop up on the Web.
As an example, let's take a photo showing the Maritime Library (not preserved) and the "Tower of the Winds" (now one of oldest buildings in the town):

Semipalatinsk
The oldest known photograph of the city dates from the 1870s.
Semipalatinsk. Poltoratskaya, L.K. Altai album, 1870s:

SERGIEV POSAD
Possibly the earliest photo of the city
Another oldest (known) picture of the city dates from 1860-1862:

Unfortunately, this is the most watchable version of all that I could find on the Internet. A high-quality reproduction is kept in the State Historical Museum (Moscow).
In November 1862, this photo was printed by the printing house of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, but not in the original, but in the form art reproduction.

Serpukhov
The oldest known photograph of Serpukhov is probably a view of the Vladychny cenobitic maiden monastery, dating from 1860-1870:

SIMBIRSK
The oldest known photo is from the period 1865-66.
Simbirsk after the fire of 1864:

SMOLENSK
A well-known series , but with an estimated dating of 1862-1867.
However, a photograph was recently discovered that was taken exactly no later than 1863.

"Ancient wall of Smolensk". Magazine "Photographic Illustration" No. 8-9 for 1863, p. 15:

SOVIETSK- see Tilsit

STAVROPOL
The earliest known photograph was taken no later than 1877 and published in the Collection of statistical information about the Stavropol province in 1877, indicating the authorship of I. Vasilevsky.
It depicts the Alexandrovskaya Women's Gymnasium:

STARAYA LADOGA
According to the documents of the Military Historical Archive in 1858-1859. Yu.P. Lvov made a survey of "antiquities of Novgorod and Staraya Ladoga". The result of these filming was an album, which was transferred to the archives of the Holy Synod, but, unfortunately, has not survived to this day.

STARAYA RUSS
The oldest known photograph dates from 1865.
Staraya Russa. Festivities on the regimental parade ground, 1865:

SUZDAL
The earliest known photographs of the city were taken by Mikhail Nastyukov around 1870 (published in an album of 1873).
Cathedral of the Nativity Holy Mother of God(circa 1870):

LARGE

TAGANROG
The first known photographs of the city date back to 1868 or 1869.
Taganrog. Monument to Alexander I, 1868-1869:

TALLINN
The first known photographs of the city date back to around the beginning of the 1860s.
View of the Long German battle after the construction of the road named after H. Falg, no later than 1863:

TASHKENT
The first known photographs of the city were taken in 1866 by M. K. Priorov and published (in the form of lithographs) in P. I. Pashino's book "Turkestan Territory in 1866".
For example:

TBILISI
Tiflis became one of the very few cities in the Russian Empire that we can see in photographs from as early as the 1850s. at least three works dated 1858 are known today.
Tiflis, general view, A.B. Ivanitsky, 1858:

TOBOLSK
The very first photographs of Tobolsk were taken by Pavel Semyonovich Pautov no later than 1864. .
One of the pictures showing the monument to Yermak:

One of them depicts Bolshaya Kazanskaya Street:

FEODOSIA
The oldest photographs of Feodosia were taken in 1866 by Alexander Viktorovich Vladimirsky (Vladsky) (1838-1905), but they are not yet available on the Internet.
From the published oldest known photograph of Feodosia at the moment is "Camp near the old fortress" by photographer Nikitin, 1878:

KHABAROVSK
The oldest known photo is from the period 1865-1875.
Khabarovka (future Khabarovsk). Mouth of the Plyusnenka River:

KHARKIV
The oldest known photo is a view of the Assumption Cathedral from the street. Moscow, 1860:

KHIVA
The oldest known Khiva photo was taken in 1858 by photographer A.S. Murenko (but he only knows view of the khan's residence on the outskirts of the city).

The first photographs of the central part of the city were taken in 1873 by G. E. Krivtsov.

Palace buildings and a harem tower, G. E. Krivtsov, 1873:

TSARITSYN
The oldest known photo is from the late 1860s.
Tsaritsyn. The old fortress in the late 1860s from the modern Medical University:

CHEREPOVETS
The earliest accurately dated photo is from 1865.
View of the pier, where in 1863 the steamer Smely stopped with the late heir Tsarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich:

LARGE

However, there is mysterious photo of the city with the Resurrection Cathedral, which could only be done before the reconstruction of the cathedral in 1854:

CHERNIGOV
Most early photo The city was made no later than 1871 by a local photographer Rafail Andreyevich Charnetsky.
Chernigov. Cathedral of the Transfiguration. From the magazine "Niva" for 1871:

Chernivtsi
The earliest known photograph was taken in 1870.
Chernivtsi. Construction of the ensemble of the former residence of the Orthodox metropolitans of Bukovina and Dalmatia, 1870:

CHITA
The oldest known photograph dates from the late 1870s.
Chita, general view. Photo taken by S.B. Tumanov in 1878 or 1879 while traveling in Eastern Siberia:

YURIEVETS
The earliest known photograph was taken by Mikhail Nastyukov in 1867:

LARGE

YALTA
The oldest known photograph of the city is dated 1864:

YAROSLAVL
Unfortunately, no photographs of the city before 1866 have been found so far.
Yaroslavl, embankment, stereo pair of 1866:

CHRONOLOGY

1840-46 - St. Petersburg;
1841 - Moscow;
1843 - Königsberg (Kaliningrad)
1848 - Kaluga;
1852 - Kyiv;
1855 - Sevastopol, Kerch, Evpatoria (?);
1857 - Riga;
1858 - Kursk, Orenburg, Tbilisi, Khiva;
1859 - Kamenetz-Podolsky, Kislovodsk;
1860 - Vilnius, Vitebsk, Vologda, Grodno, Irkutsk, Lipetsk, Kharkov;
1861 - Baku, Nizhny Novgorod;
1862 - Veliky Novgorod, Vladivostok, Vladimir, Omsk, Tallinn;
1863 - Bolkhov, Kolomna, Minsk, Orel;
1864 - Kostroma, Krasnodar, Saratov, Tobolsk, Yalta;
1865 - Belozersk, Vytegra, Kirillov, Lodeynoye Pole, Ryazan (approximately), Tikhvin;
1866 - Astrakhan, Ufa, Yaroslavl;
1867 - Kimry, Chisinau, Myshkin, Rybinsk, Torzhok, Tyumen, Uglich, Yuryevets;
1868 - Batumi, Izhevsk;
1869 - Kolomna (center), Rostov-on-Don;
1870 - Blagoveshchensk, Vyazma, Yekaterinoslav, Mozhaisk;
1871 - Bryansk, Izborsk, Pskov;
1872 - Donetsk, Nevel, Rzhev;
1873 - Petrozavodsk;
1881 - Rostov the Great, Tiraspol.

New discoveries in the field of "photoarchaeology" are now taking place almost daily, and this catalog is changing along with them. For comparison, you can see the first version of our review dated November 7, 2016.
However, there are still many gaps in our study.
For example, as it is not surprising, but so far it has not been possible to find photographs earlier than 1880 for such historical cities as Arkhangelsk, Belgorod, Velikiye Luki, Dmitrov, Yelets, Penza, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Rostov Veliky, Staraya Ladoga, Tambov, Tula, Cheboksary.

So far, there are no considerations for the very first known pictures of Akmolinsk (Astana), Barnaul, Zlatoust, Mogilev, Novorossiysk, Novosibirsk, Saransk, Simferopol, Sochi, Chelyabinsk, Yakutsk.

If any of the readers have information - I will be very grateful!

Probably everyone is interested in seeing the oldest picture of their city. Thanks to the digitization of photo archives and old albums in recent years, the oldest layer of photo heritage has become available to Internet users. Below you can see the very first of the surviving photographs.

The first known photographs of the city of Tallinn date back to around the beginning of the 1860s. View of the Long German battle after the construction of the road named after him by H. Falg, no later than 1863.

Let's review it first in alphabetical order, and then in chronological order. There are currently 106 cities represented.

ARZAMAS
The oldest known photo of Arzamas was taken before 1878:

LARGE

ARKHANGELSK
According to information from the book of E.P. Bronnikova "Arkhangelsk photography (1847-1931)", the earliest known photograph of Arkhangelsk, is stored in the state archive of the Arkhangelsk region. It was made, presumably, by Emmanuil Gotardovich Meller, who was engaged in photographic business in Arkhangelsk until 1871. Unfortunately, there is no picture in the book.

ASTRAKHAN
The first known pictures of Astrakhan belong to 1866-67, the exact year of shooting has not yet been established.
View of the Astrakhan Kremlin from the south, Atelier S.M. Vishnevsky:

BAKU
The oldest known photo of Baku dates back to 1861:

LARGE

According to other sources, the oldest photograph is this photo of the Baku Bay in 1862:

BATUMI
The oldest known photo is from 1868.
Batum. Loading ships with oil products. D. I. Ermakov:

BAKHCHISARAY
The very first pictures of the city were taken in 1869 during the trip of the Prince of Wales.
Here is one of them:

LARGE

Blagoveshchensk
The oldest known photo is from 1865-1875:

BOLKHOV
This city of the Oryol province was first photographed in 1863.
Bolkhov. From the collection of the Ivan Turgenev Reserve in Spassky-Lutovinovo:

BRYANSK
The first "photo portrait" of Bryansk. View of the embankment from the Pokrovskaya mountain. Photo by Rob. Dralya, 1871:

LARGE

VELIKIY NOVGOROD
Novgorod began to be actively filmed in 1862 in connection with the installation of the monument "Millennium of Russia". On the this photo we see just the preparation of the monument for the opening:

VILNIUS
Vilna (now Vilnius) began to be actively filmed in 1860. Among the series of first photographs was this classic view from the Castle Hill:

VITEBSK
The oldest known photograph is dated 1860. This is the view of the street. Castle work of Yurkovskiy:

VLADIVOSTOK
The very first photographs of Vladivostok date back to 1876. Here is one of them:

VLADIKAVKAZ
The oldest known photo is from 1869 or 1870:

VLADIMIR
The oldest known photographs of Vladimir were taken in 1862 by the French photographer Ferdinand Bureau, but they are not yet available online.
In 1873 Vladimir was photographed by the first Russian travel photographer Mikhail Nastyukov. One of his views from 1873:

VOLGOGRAD- see Tsaritsyn

VOLOGDA
The oldest known photo was taken around 1860.
Boulevard on Cathedral Square:

VORONEZH
The oldest known photo is from the period 1860-1870.
Voronezh. Bolshaya Moskovskaya Street, 1860-1870:

VYBORG
The oldest photo is from the 1860s.

LARGE

VYTEGRA
The very first photographs of Vytegra were taken in 1865.
View of the building of the District Board on the left and the drawbridge across the Vytegra River:

Vyatka
The earliest known photograph of Vyatka is presumably dated to the period 1861-1869:

Photo from the album P.V. Alabina (Alabin's fund in the Samara region museum of history and local lore).

GOMEL
The oldest known photo is from the 1860s.
I.F. Palace Paskevich in Gomel. Facade and towers from the side of the square. Photo by Ivan Bianchi:

GRODNO
The oldest known photo is a panorama of 1860 (or 1862?) of the year:

DNEPROPETROVSK- see Yekaterinoslav

DONETSK
The oldest known photo is from 1872.
Yuzovka General view of the plant First blast furnace, 1872:

KERCCH
The first photographs of Kerch were taken during the Crimean War, when the city was occupied by the British troops. To date, 4 such photos are known.
For example, a view of Kerch from Mount Mithridates. James Robertson, 1855:

LARGE

Königsberg
The oldest known photo of Königsberg dates back to 1860:

LARGE

KIMRY
The earliest known photograph of the city (at that time still a village) of Kimry was taken by Mikhail Nastyukov in 1867:

LARGE

KIRILLOV
The earliest known photograph of the city dates back to 1865.
View of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery on Siversky Lake. Kirillov, 1865:

LARGE

KIROV- see Vyatka

KISLOVODSK
This photograph of Kislovodsk from 1859 is the first known photograph of the Caucasian Mineral Waters. The author is a lieutenant general, a participant in the Caucasian War, an outstanding amateur photographer Count Ivan Grigoryevich Nostits (1820-1905):

KISHINEV
The oldest known pictures of Chisinau made in 1867. Here is one of them:

KOLOMNA
The oldest photograph of Kolomna dates back to 1863 and was taken in connection with the construction of a bridge near the Staro-Golutvin Monastery:

However, for the historical center of Kolomna, the oldest photograph is from 1869. Brusensky convent. Holy Cross Cathedral:

LIPETSK
The oldest known photo is from 1860.
Lipetsk. Church of the Nativity, 1860:

LODEYNOE FIELD
The earliest known photographs of the city were taken in 1865.
Lodeynoye Field. "View of the new stone church with a bell tower":

LARGE

LUGANSK
Perhaps the oldest known photograph of Luganskaya is this view of the Cathedral of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, which has not yet been dated:

LUTSK
The oldest known photo is from 1870.
Lutsk. Brigid Monastery:

MINSK
The oldest known photograph was published in Photographic Illustration for 1863 (No. 8-9), but could have been taken in 1861-62:

MOZHAYSK
The earliest known photograph was taken by Mikhail Nastyukov in 1870:

MOSCOW
As you know, the very first picture of Moscow was taken and put on public display in the window of one of the photo studios back in 1840. Alas, it did not survive.
Of the surviving and accurately dated photographs of Moscow, the oldest is a daguerreotype by the visiting French artist Lerebour, made in December 1841:

Since photo printing did not exist then, this photo has come down to us in the form of a book engraving.

Of the "raw" photographs of Moscow, the oldest is the daguerreotype "House in the estate of Petrovsko-Razumovskoye", dated from 1840 to 1847:

According to the oldest photographs of Moscow, we have .

MYSHKIN

NEVEL
The earliest known photograph was taken in 1872:
Nevel. Castle street. View from the castle, 1872:

NIZHNY NOVGOROD
Although two photographs of Nizhny Novgorod by Ferdinand Bureau (1862) were found on the Web, they cannot be downloaded in a more or less watchable form. However, there was a picture that was taken a year earlier. Alas, the image quality is also terrible.
Nizhny Novgorod. Betancourt Canal. Spassky Old Fair Cathedral. Chinese ranks Murenko A.S., 1861:

NIZHNY TAGIL
The earliest known photograph was probably taken in 1879:

LARGE

NOVGOROD- see Veliky Novgorod

NOVOCHERKASSK
The first photographs were taken in 1861 or 1862.
Ascension Military Cathedral in Novocherkassk, 1861-1862:

ODESSA
The first known photographs of the city date back to the 1860s.
View of the city theater from Rishelievskaya street, 1860s:

OMSK
In some sources, the oldest panorama (and in general a snapshot) of the city dates back to 1862, in others - 1862-63:

ORENBURG
The oldest known photographs of the city date back to 1877.
One of them is the panorama of Orenburg, published in the book by F.I. Lobysevich "Guide to Orenburg" 1878. The sim card shows a railway station, a military gymnasium, a Caravanserai, a European hotel, barracks, a salt and flour bazaars, which are still under construction:

EAGLE
The first photographs of the Eagle were taken in 1863.
Eagle. From the collection of the Ivan Turgenev reserve in Spasskoye-Lutovinovo, an album of photographs taken in 1863 by Eduard Schlessing:

PETROZAVODSK
The oldest accurately dated photograph of Petrozavodsk is a photo with a monument to Peter I on the Round Square immediately after its installation, 1873:

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY
The oldest photographs of the city were probably taken in the early 1880s.
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky from the album of Dybovsky B.I., 1882:

PSKOV
The oldest known photo is from 1871.
Pskov. Trinity Cathedral. Karl Kamprad, 1871:

RZHEV
The oldest known photograph of the city was taken on July 3, 1872:

LARGE
« Photo by the Kohlberg brothers in Rzhev».

ROSTOV
Oddly enough, no photographs of Rostov the Great have yet been found before 1883, when I.F. Barshchevsky.
Southwestern tower of the Rostov Kremlin before restoration, 1883:

ROSTOV-ON-DON
The oldest known photograph dates from 1869.
Rostov. Photo from the Album of views of the Kursk-Kharkovo-Azov railway, 1869:

Rybinsk
The earliest known photograph was taken by Mikhail Nastyukov in 1867:

RYAZAN
The oldest known photograph dates from around 1865.
Ryazan. View of Astrakhanskaya street:

SAMARA
The oldest known photograph of Samara dates back to 1860 and captures the city center before the construction of the Cathedral:

SAMARKAND
The first survey of Samarkand was carried out in the period 1870-72. The entire series is available in high resolution from the Library of Congress website.
Bibi-Khanym Mosque, 1870-72:

SAINT PETERSBURG
It is documented that the first photograph (daguerreotype) of St. Petersburg was taken already in October 1839 (!) in the year of the official invention of photography. It depicted St. Isaac's Cathedral under construction. Alas, that daguerreotype disappeared without a trace.
On the other hand, an almost equally ancient photograph of the city has recently appeared on the Web, which dates back to the period 1840-1845.
The building of the wing of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. I.Kh.Gamel:

According to the oldest photographs of St. Petersburg, we have .

SARATOV
The earliest known photographs of the city date back to 1863 and were taken by Anton Murenko.
Saratov. View from the Volga. Murenko A.S., 1863:

LARGE

SEVASTOPOL
The first photographs of Sevastopol were taken in 1855 by the Anglo-French invaders, among whom was the famous photographer Roger Fenton. Today, about a hundred of these pictures are already known, and more and more new ones constantly pop up on the Web.
As an example, let's take a photo showing the Maritime Library (not preserved) and the "Tower of the Winds" (now one of the oldest buildings in the city):

Semipalatinsk
The oldest known photograph of the city dates back to the 1870s.
Semipalatinsk. Poltoratskaya, L.K. Altai album, 1870s:

LARGE

SERGIEV POSAD
The oldest (known) picture of the city dates from 1860-1862:

Serpukhov
The oldest known photograph of Serpukhov is probably a view of the Vladychny cenobitic maiden monastery, dating from 1860-1870:

SIMBIRSK
The oldest known photo is from the period 1865-66.
Simbirsk after the fire of 1864:

SMOLENSK
A well-known series three oldest photographs of Smolensk, but with an estimated dating of 1862-1867.
However, a photograph was recently discovered that was taken exactly no later than 1863.

"Ancient wall of Smolensk". Magazine "Photographic Illustration" No. 8-9 for 1863, p. 15:

SOVIETSK- see Tilsit

STARAYA RUSS
The oldest known photograph dates from 1865.
Old Russa. Festivities on the regimental parade ground, 1865:

SUZDAL
The earliest known photographs of the city were taken by Mikhail Nastyukov in 1873.
Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1873):

LARGE

TAGANROG
The first known photographs of the city date back to 1868 or 1869.
Taganrog. Monument to Alexander I, 1868-1869:

TASHKENT
The first known photographs of the city were taken no later than 1866 by M. K. Priorov and published (in the form of lithographs) in P. I. Pashino's book "Turkestan Territory in 1866".
For example:

CHEREPOVETS
The earliest photograph is dated 1865.
View of the pier, where in 1863 the steamer Smely stopped with the late heir Tsarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich:

LARGE

Chernivtsi
The earliest known photograph was taken in 1870.
Chernivtsi. Construction of the ensemble of the former residence of the Orthodox metropolitans of Bukovina and Dalmatia, 1870:

YURIEVETS
The earliest known photograph was taken by Mikhail Nastyukov in 1867:

LARGE

YALTA
The oldest known photograph of the city is dated 1864:

YAROSLAVL
Unfortunately, no photographs of the city before 1866 have been found so far.
Yaroslavl, embankment, stereo pair of 1866:

CHRONOLOGY

1840-46 - St. Petersburg
1841 - Moscow
1852 - Kyiv
1855 - Sevastopol, Kerch, Evpatoria (?)
1857 - Riga
1858 - Kursk, Tbilisi
1859 - Kamenetz-Podolsky, Kislovodsk
1860 - Vilnius, Vitebsk, Vologda, Grodno, Irkutsk, Kaliningrad, Lipetsk, Kharkov
1861 - Baku, Nizhny Novgorod
1862 - Veliky Novgorod, Vladimir, Omsk, Sergiev Posad
1863 - Bolkhov, Minsk, Oryol
1864 - Kostroma, Krasnodar, Saratov, Yalta
1865 - Belozersk, Vytegra, Lodeynoye Pole, Ryazan (approximately), Tikhvin
1866 - Astrakhan, Yaroslavl
1867 - Kimry, Chisinau, Myshkin, Rybinsk, Torzhok, Tyumen, Uglich, Ufa, Yurievets
1868 - Batumi, Izhevsk
1869 - Kolomna (center), Rostov-on-Don
1870 - Blagoveshchensk, Yekaterinoslav, Kaluga, Mozhaisk, Tallinn (approximately)
1871 - Bryansk, Izborsk, Pskov
1872 - Donetsk, Nevel, Rzhev
1873 - Petrozavodsk, Suzdal, Khiva
1875 - Vladivostok

Original taken from visual history in The very first known picture of the city (the city of the former USSR)

I've been meaning to make this post for a long time. Probably everyone is interested in seeing the oldest picture of their city. Thanks to the digitization of photo archives and old albums in recent years, the oldest layer of photo heritage has become available to Internet users. It's time to start organizing our discoveries.
In March 2015 we made our first attempt review of the oldest photographs of the cities of the Russian Empire, but that post was without illustrations.
Now we will show the very first of the surviving images.
Let's review it first in alphabetical order, and then in chronological order.
On the present moments 88 cities represented. I would be very grateful to readers for any clarifications and additions, because I plan to regularly update this catalog.

ASTRAKHAN
The first known photographs of Astrakhan date back to the early 1870s; the exact year of the survey has not yet been established.
View of the Astrakhan Kremlin from the south. 1870-73, Atelier S.M. Vishnevsky:

BAKU
The oldest known photo of Baku dates back to 1864. Alas. The reproduction quality leaves much to be desired.

BATUMI
The oldest known photo is from 1868.
Batum. Loading ships with oil products. D. I. Ermakov:

Blagoveshchensk
The oldest known photo is from 1865-1875:

BOLKHOV
This city of the Oryol province was first photographed in 1863.
Bolkhov. From the collection of the Ivan Turgenev Reserve in Spassky-Lutovinovo:

VELIKIY NOVGOROD
Novgorod began to be actively filmed in 1862 in connection with the installation of the monument "Millennium of Russia". In this photo we see just the preparation of the monument for the opening:

VILNIUS
Vilna (now Vilnius) began to be actively filmed in 1860. Among the series of first photographs was this classic view from the Castle Hill:

VITEBSK
The oldest known photograph is dated 1860. This is the view of the street. Castle work of Yurkovskiy:

VLADIVOSTOK
The very first photographs of Vladivostok date back to 1876. Here is one of them:

VLADIKAVKAZ
The oldest known photo is from 1869 or 1870:

VLADIMIR
The oldest known photographs of Vladimir were taken in 1873 by the first Russian travel photographer Mikhail Nastyukov. Unfortunately, they are still not available on the Web in normal quality.
One of the views of 1873:

VOLGOGRAD
The oldest known photo is from the late 1860s.
Tsaritsyn. The old fortress in the late 1860s from the modern Medical University:

VOLOGDA
The oldest known photo was taken around 1860.
Boulevard on Cathedral Square:

VORONEZH
The oldest known photo is from the period 1860-1870.
Voronezh. Bolshaya Moskovskaya Street, 1860-1870:

VYBORG
The oldest photo is from the 1860s.

LARGE

VYTEGRA
The very first photographs of Vytegra were taken in 1865.
View of the building of the District Board on the left and the drawbridge across the Vytegra River:

GOMEL

I.F. Palace Paskevich in Gomel. Facade and towers from the side of the square. Photo by Ivan Bianchi:

GRODNO
The oldest known photo is a panorama from 1860:

DONETSK
The oldest known photo is from 1872.
Yuzovka General view of the plant First blast furnace, 1872:

Yekaterinburg
The oldest known photo is from 1873-1883:
Yekaterinburg. Main avenue:

EKATERINOSLAV

Ekaterinoslav. Holy Trinity Cathedral:

YEREVAN
The oldest known photo is from the period 1872-74.
Yerevan. Portal of the Sardar mosque. 1872-1874:

IZHEVSK
The oldest known photograph of Izhevsk was taken by A. Vyatkin in 1868.
Izhevsk plant. General's House and St. Michael's Chapel on Gora, 1868:

IZBORSK

View of the Izborsk fortress. K.I. Kamprad, 1871:

IRKUTSK
The capital of the vast province has been in the lens of photographers since the very beginning of the 1860s.
Gostinodvorskaya Square in Irkutsk, 1860:

Kazan
The oldest known photographs of the city date back to the 1860s; it has not yet been possible to more accurately determine the date of the first photograph.
Kazan. University yard. On the left is a monument to Derzhavin, on the right is the bell tower of the Resurrection Church, 1860s:

KALININGRAD
The oldest known photo dates from 1860:

LARGE

KALUGA
The oldest known photo is from 1870.
Kaluga, view from the bell tower of the Trinity Cathedral to the Ensemble of Offices, Parade Square and Gostiny Ryads. Davingoff:

KALYAZIN

KAUNAS
The oldest known photo was taken in 1861:

KERCCH
Although Kerch was occupied by an English landing in 1855, no photographs of that period have yet been found. The oldest known photo was taken around 1875:

KYIV
The oldest photograph of Kyiv was made in 1852 by the famous English photographer Roger Fenton. Just a year or two ago, more than 10 pictures from this series were leaked to the Web, but almost all of them are still available in very poor resolution.
As an example, let's take a calotype with St. Andrew's Church, which is in a more or less decent form:

KIMRY
The earliest known photograph of the city (at that time still a village) of Kimry was taken by Mikhail Nastyukov in 1867:

LARGE

KIROV
The earliest known photograph of Vyatka refers to the period 1861-1869:

KOLOMNA
The oldest photograph of Kolomna dates back to 1863 and was taken in connection with the construction of a bridge near the Staro-Golutvin Monastery:

However, for the historical center of Kolomna, the oldest photograph is from 1869. Brusensky convent. Holy Cross Cathedral:

LUTSK
The oldest known photo is from 1870.
Lutsk. Brigid Monastery:

Since photo printing did not exist then, this photo has come down to us in the form of a book engraving.

Of the "raw" photographs of Moscow, the oldest is the daguerreotype "House in the estate of Petrovsko-Razumovskoye", dated from 1840 to 1847:

MINSK
The oldest known photograph was published in Photographic Illustration for 1863 (No. 8-9), but could have been taken in 1861-62:

MOZHAYSK
The earliest known photograph was taken by Mikhail Nastyukov in 1870:

MYSHKIN
The earliest known photograph was taken by Mikhail Nastyukov in 1867:

NEVEL
The earliest known photograph was taken in 1872:
Nevel. Castle street. View from the castle, 1872:

NIZHNY NOVGOROD
Although two photographs of Nizhny Novgorod by Ferdinand Bureau (1859) were found on the Web, they cannot be downloaded in a more or less watchable form. Therefore, here is a picture that was taken a couple of years later. Alas, the image quality is also terrible.
Nizhny Novgorod. Betancourt Canal. Spassky Old Fair Cathedral. Chinese ranks Murenko A.S., 1861:

NIZHNY TAGIL
The earliest known photograph was probably taken in 1879:

LARGE

NOVOCHERKASSK
The first photographs were taken in 1861 or 1862.
Ascension Military Cathedral in Novocherkassk, 1861-1862:

ODESSA
The first known photographs of the city date back to the early 1870s.
Odessa. Richelieu Stairs, 1870-73:

OMSK
In some sources, the oldest panorama (and in general a photograph) of the city dates back to 1862, in others - 1862-63:

PETROZAVODSK
The oldest known photographs of Petrozavodsk are those taken by Yaroslav Pekarsky for the album "Olonets Province" in 1881 (1882?). One of the pictures:

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY
The oldest photographs of the city were probably taken in the early 1880s.
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky from the album of Dybovsky B.I., 1882:

PSKOV
The oldest known photo is from 1871.
Pskov. Trinity Cathedral. Karl Kamprad, 1871:

RIGA
The oldest photographs are dated 1857 and they show medieval fortifications, which just then began to be demolished: