Introducing and Analyzing the First Plane Map of Tehran City

Four maps of Tehran old city inside Shah Tahmasbi wall from Qājār period are available. Among these, the map by Russian captain Naskov, which was drawn in the late Fath-Ali-shāh Qājār's reign, is the oldest. The fact can be understood through studying its contemporary events and also surveying the very contents of the map and comparing it with the other three ones. The contents of the map clears that the purpose of its suppliers was to know and introduce the strategic position of Tehran and its suburb. Emphasizing on the location of some important buildings and drawing the details of the city rampart and trench are some of the evidences. This map was drawn in a time of the two Iran- Russia wars. From all of the evidences it can be understood that Naskov's map, the first map of Tehran city, was provided for a military purpose.