The Soviet World Atlas

This notice reproduces the Scottish Geographical Magazine’s assessment of the Soviet World Atlas, chiefly Volume I. It praises the scholarship and reproduction, noting multicolour offset printing, rag paper, removable maps and double- or triple-page plates. Volume I covers the world and the Soviet Union as a whole, with maps of soils, natural vegetation, trade, railway ownership, population and mineral resources, plus a climatic-region map specially revised by Koeppen. The notice also reports that Syracuse University’s Department of Geology and Geography translated all of Volume I’s titles and legends into a 100-page English booklet. Symbols printed alongside the translated legend entries allow consultation without knowledge of Russian; place names generally remain untranslated. These observations concern Volume I, not a review of the published second volume.