Soviet Military Mapping. You are here. Home. Special Series Maps . Several other map series are known to have been produced by VTU and GUGK during the Cold War period. They include 1:300,000 topos published in the 1950s by GUGK. The purpose of this series is not known, nor is it known how extensive the series was, but the few that have come to ...

International Map of the World (IMW) Soviet topographic maps are non-rectangular sheets based on sheet lines defined by lines of latitude and longitude and numbered in accordance with the nomenclature devised by Albrecht Penck in the late 19th century for the proposed International Map of the World. The IMW was intended as an international ...

City Plans - Military Series. 1. The sheets are rectangular, the edges being defined on Gauss-Krüger coordinates. 2. The coverage is non-continuous across a country, as the plan of each chosen city is designed as a single entity so that a set of map sheets is centred on and covers just the required urban area. 3.

The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World by John Davies and Alexander J Kent is published by University of Chicago Press, price $35 / £26.50. You may not be surprised to learn that during the Cold War the Soviet Union gathered information about the West. But you may be astonished to discover just how much they knew about ...

The topographic maps or ‘topos’ are non-rectangular sheets based on sheet lines defined by lines of latitude and longitude and numbered in accordance with the nomenclature devised for the International Map of the World.Topos were produced at …

These are to the same specification, coloring and symbology as the military city plans, but omit geographic coordinates, the street index, ‘spravka’ and ‘important objects’. Local coordinates were established separately (and secretly) for each map, but the projection is the same as SK-42 projection, with identifying values omitted and a ...

The USSR and its allies had need of topographic mapping for economic and civil governmental purposes, but the military maps, having the location-based sheet numbering system and showing geographic coordinates – designed to be used for military-precision targeting – were not suited to be made available to non-military authorities.

Print Codes. The maps have a print code in bottom right hand corner. This comprises : Series code, job number/sheet, month and year of printing, factory code. For example : И 35/2 VI-84 Л indicates City plan, job 35 sheet2, printed June 1984 at …