The Soviet World Atlas
- Publication
- Science
- Volume
- 99
- Issue
- 2573
- Pages
- 314
USSR · Version 1
1937–1939This notice relays the Scottish Geographical Magazine’s favorable assessment of Volume I of the Soviet World Atlas, praising its scholarship and reproduction. The volume covers the world and the Soviet Union as wholes, with thematic maps of soils, natural vegetation, trade, railway ownership, population and mineral resources, along with a climatic-region map specially revised by Koeppen. The notice describes offset printing with fifteen or twenty colors on many plates, rag paper, removable maps and double- or triple-page sheets. It also reports that Syracuse University’s Department of Geology and Geography produced a 100-page English translation of all Volume I titles and legends. Most place names remain untranslated, but symbols printed beside the translated legend entries allow readers to use the aid without knowing Russian.
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This notice describes two cartographic publications. The Scottish Geographical Magazine praises the scholarship and production quality of the Soviet World Atlas. Its published first volume covers the world and the Soviet Union; Syracuse University has issued English translations of its titles and legends. The remaining volumes, planned to cover the Soviet Union in detail and foreign countries, were delayed by war. The National Geographic Society’s ten-color map of Japan and adjacent regions is centered on Tokyo and permits measurement of distances from island bases to the city. It includes detailed insets of industrial and strategic areas and the Marshall Islands, showing transport routes, wartime dismantling, and planned construction.
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