  The work that consists of two parts is devoted to the problem of enumerating
unrooted $r$-regular maps on the torus up to all its symmetries. We begin with
enumerating near-$r$-regular rooted maps on the torus, projective plane and the
Klein bottle. We also present the results of enumerating some special kinds of
maps on the sphere: near-$r$-regular maps, maps with multiple leaves and maps
with multiple root semi-edges. For $r=3$ and $r=4$ we obtain exact analytical
formulas. For larger $r$ we derive recurrence relations. Then using these
results we enumerate $r$-regular maps on the torus up to homeomorphisms that
preserve its orientation --- so-called sensed maps. Using the concept of a
quotient map on an orbifold we reduce this problem to enumeration of certain
classes of rooted maps. For $r=3$ and $r=4$ we obtain closed-form expressions
for the numbers of $r$-regular sensed maps by edges. All these results will be
used in the second part of the work to enumerate $r$-regular maps on the torus
up to all homeomorphisms --- so-called unsensed maps.
