Although initially Russian cartography could not glory in original work - the "Atlas Marxa" (1905), for example, is merely a translation of Debes' Neuer Handatlas - the large Atlas Mira ("World Atlas", 1954, 2nd ed. Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) 1967, 3rd 1999), with some 200,000 names, also in English translation of the last two editions as "The World Atlas", meant a very special achievement. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) A similar Russian project Bolshoi Sovietskii Atlas Mira, intented to be the most comprehensive atlas of modern times, remained with two out of three planned volumes (1937/39) incomplete owing to wartime.
External links
- Novikova, T. G. (exec. editor) a. o. : The World Atlas. 3rd ed. Federal Service of Geodesy and Cartography of Russia. Moscow, 1999. ISBN 5-85120-055-3
- "Bolshoi Sovietskii Atlas Mira Projection", The MathWorks, accessed March 28, 2007
- Theodore Shabad, "Atlas Mira", Geographical Review, Vol. 46, No. 2 (Apr. , 1956), pp. 289-291
- Terence Armstrong, Fiziko-Geograficheskiy Atlas", The Geographical Journal, Vol. 132, No. 1 (Mar. , 1966), p. 157
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