Cover image for Soviet Union : forged during a millenium of expansion, the largest country on earth is an unwieldy conglomeration of a hundred ethnolinguistic groups
Soviet Union : forged during a millenium of expansion, the largest country on earth is an unwieldy conglomeration of a hundred ethnolinguistic groups
Title:
Soviet Union : forged during a millenium of expansion, the largest country on earth is an unwieldy conglomeration of a hundred ethnolinguistic groups
Author:
National Geographic Society (U.S.). Cartographic Division.
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, 1990.
Physical Description:
2 maps on 1 sheet : both sides, color ; 25 x 46 cm and 53 x 90 cm, sheet 56 x 94 cm, folded to 15 x 24 cm
General Note:
Relief shown by shading and spot heights on general map. Depths shown by gradient tints and soundings on general map.

Panel title.

Published: Washington, D.C., March 1990.

"Supplement to the National Geographic, March 1990, page 2A, vol. 177, no. 3--Soviet Union."

"Reprinted from the National Geographic Magazine for the Soviet Union Today."

Includes text, index of administrative divisions, inset of population density, glossary, aerial view as if from outer space, and bar graphs.

Ancillary historical maps of territorial expansion: 1. Slavic expansion ca. 600 -- 2. The Kievan Rus 1054 -- 3. Seeds of the Russian state 1380 -- 4. Tsardom of Muscovy 1596 -- 5. Westward inroads 1815 -- 6. The long movement eastward 1886 -- 7. War and revolution 1914 -- 8. Soviet sphere 1955.
Language:
English
Contents:
Ethnolinguistic groups of the Soviet Union -- Soviet Union [general map showing administrative divisions].
Format :
Map