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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Structural Mechanics of Engineering Constructions and Buildings</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Structural Mechanics of Engineering Constructions and Buildings</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Строительная механика инженерных конструкций и сооружений</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">1815-5235</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2587-8700</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">11072</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">HISTORY OF THE TOPOGRAPHY IN BENIN: THE OUTSETS OF THE TOPOGRAPHY AND ITS REALIZATIONS IN DAHOMEY (1850 to 1955)</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>ИСТОРИЯ ТОПОГРАФИЧЕСКИХ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ В БЕНИНЕ: СТАНОВЛЕНИЕ ТОПОГРАФИИ В ДАГОМЕЕ И ЕЕ РЕАЛИЗАЦИЯ С 1850 ПО 1955 ГОД</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>DEGBEGNON</surname><given-names>Leopold</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Дегбегнон</surname><given-names>Леопольд</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en">PhD in Geodesy</bio><email>leopolddegbegnon@yahoo.fr</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Department of Civil Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique d'Abomey-Calavi, Universite d'Abomey-Calavi, Benin</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Кафедра гражданского строительства, Universite d'Abomey-Calavi,Бенин</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2014-01-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>01</month><year>2014</year></pub-date><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">NO1 (2014)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">№1 (2014)</issue-title><fpage>78</fpage><lpage>84</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2016-09-12"><day>12</day><month>09</month><year>2016</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2016, Structural Mechanics of Engineering Constructions and Buildings</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2016, Строительная механика инженерных конструкций и сооружений</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2016</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Structural Mechanics of Engineering Constructions and Buildings</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Строительная механика инженерных конструкций и сооружений</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/structural-mechanics/article/view/11072">https://journals.rudn.ru/structural-mechanics/article/view/11072</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en">The origins of the topography in Benin, (ex French Colony of Dahomey) result from the necessity to the future colonist to know in detail the territory which he desires to establish his military strategy of conquest. Then, the topography came in Dahomey by the missionaries to assist at first the campaign and the military expedition of Danhomey and then to assure the development, the reorganization and the territorial management of the new colony at the be- ginning of 1900s. So the Department of Topography, created for that purpose and animated periodically by different French land surveyors took an important part in the plan of towns and the construction of infrastructures.</abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru">Возникновение топографии в Бенине, бывшей французской колонии Дагомеи, связано с не- обходимостью для будущих колонистов детально знать территорию, на которой они желали установить свое военное присутствие. Когда возникла необходимость в топографии в Дагомее, сначала миссионеры помогали группам и военным экспедициям, а затем для дальнейшего разви- тия в 1900-х годах была проведена реорганизация и территориальное разделение новой колонии. Таким образом, Департамент топографии, созданный для вышеуказанных целей и реорганизуе- мый различными французскими колониальными властями, создал основную часть планов городов и инфраструктуру страны.</trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Topography</kwd><kwd>missionaries</kwd><kwd>colony</kwd><kwd>development</kwd><kwd>reorganization</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>топографические исследования</kwd><kwd>миссионеры</kwd><kwd>колония</kwd><kwd>развитие страны</kwd><kwd>реорганизация территориального деления Дагомеи</kwd><kwd>геодезия</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>BORGHERO F.- La Carte de la Cote des Esclaves- Societe de Geographie de Paris 3 en 1866.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>d'ALMEIDA TOPOR H.- Histoire economique du DAHOMEY (1890-1920), volume 1, Editions l'Harmattan, 1995, 422 pages.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B3"><label>3.</label><mixed-citation>JUHE-BEAULATON D.- Environnement et exploration geographique de l'ex DAHOMEY a la veille de la conquete coloniale, Allocataire de recherche, Universite de Paris I. 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