Journal Article

Integrated regional geographic atlases

By K. A. Salishchev· 1964

Publication: Soviet Geography
Volume: 5
Issue: 7
Pages: 17-22

Uzbekistan · Version 1

1963

In his survey of Soviet regional atlases, K. A. Salishchev cites the maps of loess cover and loess-like rocks and of temperature sums during the cotton-growing season in the 1963 Atlas of the Uzbek SSR as examples of mapping a region’s specific characteristics.

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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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