" Russia (Soviet Union): 1990 Detailed MAP ... Poster

This Soviet Union map represents Side One of a two-map set published in March 1990, just twenty-one months before the dismantling of the USSR. Three articles on the Soviet Union accompanied the maps, including "Siberia: In from the Cold." A historical snapshot of the end of an era, this map makes a fine collectable. • Administrative units of the Soviet Union • Inset map showing population density • Various capitals shown including those of nations, Soviet Socialist Republics, oblasts (regions), krays (territories), autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics, autonomous oblasts, and nationality okrugs (districts) • Railroads, roads, canals, airports, and northern sea routes • Ocean bathymetry, rivers, lakes, deserts, glaciers, tundra, swamps, areas below sea level and more • Oil fields, sites, nothern limit of wooded country, and limit of multi-year ice • Geographical equivalents