What are these two words with obsolete letters?

Question

I underlined two words in green. They have obsolete letters that I cannot track down. What are the translations?

Context: This is a map legend. The full map is here.

That could not be Russian Cyrillic. In the title of the map, there is a "western" "I" letter. Also in the snippet provided, in the word "znaki" (please excuse me for not using Cyrillic) the "k" has what looks like an extender. This could be a Kazakh symbol. — Greg Wochlik, Mar 20 '18 at 09:29
A text in the question is written in a Russian pre-reform orthography that was widely used prior to 20th century. It had “i”, “ѣ”, “ѳ” and “ѵ” but lacked of modern “ё” and “й”. — Arhadthedev, Mar 20 '18 at 09:36

score 19 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 19 '18 at 17:58

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First word (Уездная) has an obsolete letter "yat" ("ять") in cursive, so it looks different form its typical form (ѣ).

Second word (Нарымъ) has no obsolete letters, although the first letter "Н" is written in uncommon form (maybe someone knows an explanation).

answered Mar 19 '18 at 17:58

Alexander

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Nevertheless, writing 'Нарымъ' is obsolete, because now it is 'Нарым'. – Dmitriy Mar 19 '18 at 20:13
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@Dmitry Writing - yes. Letters (the question is about letters) - no. – Abakan Mar 20 '18 at 10:20
Letter "ять" looks different because of used font - it has the same look in the city name "ВѢНА" (Vienna), which isn't in cursive – Victor Mar 20 '18 at 20:42
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Wiki (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D1%82%D1%8C): "... начертание ѣ вроде слитного ГЬ, ставшее в XIX—XX вв. основным в рукописных и курсивных шрифтах, но иногда встречавшееся и в прямом шрифте, особенно в заголовках, плакатах" – Victor Mar 20 '18 at 20:49

score 16 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 19 '18 at 17:46

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The first word is Уездная (County, district).
The second word is Нарым. It's a geographic title, no translation.

answered Mar 19 '18 at 17:46

Dmitry

Okay, so what is that old letter that looks like п combined with ь? – DrZ214 Mar 19 '18 at 17:52
I thought it was an л-ь ligature, because I know such a thing exists. But it looks like @Dmitry had identified it as е. – spoko Mar 19 '18 at 18:26
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@DrZ214 That obsolote letter is ять. – Dmitry Mar 19 '18 at 20:06

spoko · Answer 3 · 2018-03-19T18:27:18.873

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I don't see any obsolete letters in that second one. It's Нарымъ.

edited Mar 19 '18 at 18:27

answered Mar 19 '18 at 17:40

spoko

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It looked more like Наръ + w + жъ to me, but I confess I am terrible at cursive Russian. – DrZ214 Mar 19 '18 at 17:50
@DrZ214, Нарым is a really existing minute village, so your theory looks incorrect. And it would be really strange looking ж. – Arhadthedev Mar 19 '18 at 19:09
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BTW there is a cursive ж one line upper in an abbreviation ж.д. It looks much different from cursive м. – artptr Mar 19 '18 at 21:12
There is plenty of other "ы"s in this document. Same form as in "Нарымъ". – Alexander Mar 19 '18 at 22:21

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