The geographical works of V.N. Tatishchev are little known, since most of them remained unpublished. Meanwhile, they are of great scientific interest and importance, as one of the first scientific works on Russian geography. They contain valuable materials on the geography of Russia in the first half of the 18th century and on the history of the national economy of Russia. Without these works, which undoubtedly influenced the subsequent geographers of the 18th century (P.I. Rychkov and others), it is impossible to understand the development of Russian geographical thought, already in the 17th-18th centuries. gave many works that retain scientific significance to this day.