Petersburg and surrounding area. This map includes many of the dacha places mentioned in the text. It is far from comprehensive, however. Dacha settlements can be found at almost every stop on the railway lines out of Petersburg as well as in many more remote parts of the region.

Moscow and surrounding area. This map includes the four railway lines that have been most influential in the history of the Moscow dacha. The other routes—northwest toward Riga, north toward Savelovo, southwest toward Kiev, east toward Nizhnii Novgorod, south toward Kursk and Volgograd—have also played their part, and are now densely overgrown with dacha and garden settlements. The first of these lines to be completed was the Nikolaevskaia in 1851; the latest—to Riga and to Savelovo—became operative in the early twentieth century.