During the Cold War, the Soviet military mapped the entire world. This secret program was one of the most ambitious mapping efforts ever undertaken, and it produced thousands—perhaps even millions—of ...

This 1976 map of Seattle is not the kind you would have bought at a gas station. No, this is a secret map put together by the Military Topographic Directorate of the General Staff of the Soviet Army.

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A new Soviet map of the Palestine area received here seems to indicate a Soviet political desire to divide pieces of Israel’s territory among its Arab neighbors. Theoretically based on the 1947 United ...

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THE maps of Glasgow and Edinburgh may look familiar to people who live in the cities, but the lettering - in the Cyrillic alphabet of the Russian language - will be less so. For they were among a huge ...