Atlas Mira
The Atlas Mira , ( Russian Атлас Мира ) (German "Weltatlas") is the largest Soviet and later Russian atlas of the 20th century.
The first edition appeared in 1954. It comprises 283 map pages that depict all areas of the world at a scale of 1: 20,000,000 and 1: 2,500,000. It has a very large format of 50 × 34 × 7 cm for a hand atlas.
The second edition appeared in 1967 in both Cyrillic and English lettering ('The World Atlas'). A new edition in both languages was published in 1999.
The atlas also has its own name register. There are around 200,000 geographical names and place names recorded.
In its time, the Atlas Mira was considered a world class product and masterpiece. However, German cartographers and the American military soon noticed falsified maps. Around 1970 they noticed systematic shifts in localities, for example the town of Logaschkino on the Alaseja river and Salmi (Karelia) .
literature
- The World Atlas ( Scans at David Rumsey Map Collection ), 1967
- Atlas Mira , Roskartografija Publishing House, 1999, Moscow, ISBN 5-85120-055-3
- The World Atlas , Roskartografija Verlag (Federal Service of Geodesy and Cartography of Russia), Moscow, 1999, ISBN 5-85120-055-3
Individual evidence
- ↑ M. Witkam: PRE Атлас Мира / Atlas Mira, The World Atlas, 2e druk (1967/68) . Retrieved October 12, 2014.
- ↑ a b Atlas mira , GeoDZ.com
- ^ "Atlas Mira" Theodore Shabad, Geographical Review, Vol. 46, No. 2 (April 1956), pp. 289-291
- ↑ Do You Like Maps? Studies in Intelligence Vol. 28 / Summer 1984 ISSN 1527-0874