Armenian SSR Atlas
Հայկական ՍՍՀ ատլաս
Armenia · Հայկական ԽՍՀ Գիտությունների Ակադեմիա · 1961
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Cartography: Atlases
Unknown · 1964
This paper examines the unique cartographic and editorial challenges encountered in producing the first Hebrew edition of the Atlas of Israel (1964), a comprehensive work comprising 102 sheets and 720 large-scale maps. Although modeled on other national atlases, the Israeli atlas diverged significantly due to three primary factors: the country's rapid demographic and cultural transformations, its distinctive geographical position and elongated shape, and the uneven reliability of its documentary base. The most influential factor was the dramatic 600% population increase over two generations, which drove extreme changes in agriculture, economy, communication, and services. To capture this dynamism, the atlas employs time-sequence map series for most topics rather than single static representations, and includes supplementary maps to update content. Geographically, Israel's location on the arid zone boundary creates sharp north-south contrasts, with highly diverse physical, human, and economic elements in the north versus a monotonous south, compounded by varied topography over small altitude ranges. These spatial characteristics demanded specialized cartographic solutions. Finally, the area's political history under Ottoman, British, and Israeli administrations within 50 years resulted in data that differ greatly in coverage and reliability. The paper details how these interrelated problems shaped the atlas's content, design, and production.
Regional atlases today and tendencies of their development
Salichtchev, K. A. · 1964
This paper examines the evolution and contemporary tendencies of regional integrated atlases through a comparative analysis of major publications from Germany, Austria, France, the United States, Canada, and the Soviet Union. The study employs a systematic content assessment, using a comparative table to quantify the thematic composition and balance of atlas sections—nature, population, economy, and culture—across nineteen historical and modern atlases. The analysis reveals that early German regional atlases, such as the Atlas of Pomerania, displayed progressive cartographic techniques alongside politically biased content. The post-war German Federal Republic's Planning Atlas series adopted a unified framework with a pronounced statistical-economic orientation but often neglected the synthesis of natural conditions and lacked internal map consistency. Austrian atlases, exemplified by those of Lower Austria and Salzburg, exhibit a strong local-studies tradition, featuring extensive historical, settlement, and cultural maps, yet they reveal weaknesses in demographic and socio-economic coverage and occasional cartographic shortcomings. More recent atlases from France, North America, and the Soviet Union show increasing practical applications for regional planning and resource management, yet the balance between analytical detail and geographic synthesis remains inconsistent. The paper concludes that regional atlases are increasingly oriented toward practical planning needs, but their development requires greater emphasis on interdisciplinary integration, improved comparability of data across maps, and a more systematic incorporation of natural conditions to support comprehensive territorial analysis.
Integrated regional geographic atlases
Salishchev, K. A. · 1964
The author reviews work on atlases of Soviet republics and oblasts published in 1961-64, containing maps on physical geography, population, economy and culture. He finds that these atlases suffer from a lack of practical purposefulness and inadequate coordination. These weaknesses are to be remedied in a new coordinated project of natural-resource atlases of the major republics and economic regions of the USSR initiated in 1963.)
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