Reviews: A New Atlas of Armenia

Summary

This is an academic review of the Atlas of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (1961, Erevan–Moscow), compiled by a team of geographers under the Armenian Academy of Sciences. Covering an area of 29,800 square kilometers with about one hundred maps, the atlas is divided into four sections: physical, demographic, economic, and historical. The review praises its comprehensive content and technical quality, particularly the historical maps spanning from Urartu to the Soviet period, and the economic and demographic maps illustrating Armenia's rapid transformation from an agrarian society to an industrialized state. It also criticizes the small scale of some maps and the omission of the Nakhichevan region, while affirming the atlas's significant value for students of Armenian history, geography, and culture.