About the Soviet Union. Map is showing the Soviet Union, the former country, partly in eastern Europe and northern Asia, was established in 1922 and dissolved in 1991. With an area of 22,402,200 km² it was the largest country on Earth. The Russian Federation, the new name of the country of what was left of the Soviet Union, after the breakaway ...

Map. Republics of the Soviet Union. "801727 (B01272) 7-91." Shows union (Soviet Socialist) republics with area tints, republic names, and capital cities. Includes note. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Date: 1991.

14/02/2019 · Atlas of the Soviet Union. The Wikimedia Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons. The introductions of the country, dependency and region entries are in the native languages and in English. The other introductions are in English.

In December of 1991 the Soviet Union (the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or U.S.S.R.) was officially dissolved. From it emerged Russia (the Russian Federation) and a number of independent countries in Central Asia and Eastern Europe (shown in greens in the map).

Historical Map of Europe & the Mediterranean (25 December 1991 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: The failure of the August coup broke the Communist Party and ended Soviet dominance. Real power now lay in the hands of the component republics, such as Russia and Ukraine. On December 25, unable to stop the republics from asserting their independence, Gorbachev …

Soviet Military Maps of the World. During the Cold War, the Military Topographic Directorate (VTU) of the General Staff of the Soviet Army conducted a secret topographic mapping program at a high level of detail and coverage for almost the entire globe. The true extent of the Soviet cartographic enterprise is yet to emerge, but it is clear that ...

23/01/2016 · Map created by Antonu via Wikimedia. The map above, shows the locations of the Soviet Union’s Gulag forced labour camps, that existed between 1923 and 1961. This system has also become known as the Gulag Archipelago based on the title of the book written by Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The term Gulag is an acronym for Г ...