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 ...

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.

01/04/2016 · USSR physical map . USSR Administrative Divisions (1989): union republics, autonomous republics, oblasts, autonomous oblasts, okrugs . USSR’s 15 union republics (SSRs) (1989) USSR National Geographic ethno-linguistic map (1974) (politically incorrect but heuristically useful)

Soviet military mapping of the world. The cartographic production produced by the USSR during the Cold War period is immense, encompassing all corners of the globe. These topographic maps have a quality and a detail that surprises, especially as some of them are so remote and difficult to access for the technology of the time.

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).

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 ...

25/01/2022 · Russia map vs USSR map: How Moscow once administrated Ukraine under the USSR VLADIMIR PUTIN is amassing Russian forces along the shared border with Ukraine, a country he appears to regard as part ...