National Atlas of the Mongolian People's Republic: Issues and Scientific Content

Summary

National Atlas of the Mongolian People’s Republic: Issues and Scientific Content is a 1989 monograph edited by V. V. Vorobyev that reviews atlas compilation undertaken through cooperation between the Soviet and Mongolian academies of sciences. The visible publication notice, introduction, and contents outline the atlas’s programme, structure, projection, scale series, layout, editorial work, and cartographic representation. Its thematic coverage includes geology and mineral resources, relief, climate, hydrology, soils, vegetation, fauna, landscapes and natural regionalization, alongside population, industry, agriculture, transport, territorial economic organization, international relations, education, culture, trade, and health care. The introduction identifies Soviet–Mongolian expeditions conducted since 1967, together with their published research and thematic maps, as the atlas’s evidentiary foundation. It presents national atlases as integrated representations of nature, population, economic activity, and their interrelationships, with applications to inventories of resources and productive capacity. It also describes Mongolia’s elevated inland terrain, strongly continental climate, and mineral resources, and supplies figures on industrial, energy, agricultural, educational, and health-care development, which the authors characterize as achievements of socialist construction. The supplied ending consists of a geographical-name index, contents, and publication details; it does not include the concluding chapter, so the book’s detailed arguments and final conclusions cannot be summarized from these excerpts.