We would like to introduce, with some
delay, new maps:
- from cartographic collections in New Zealand,
42 sheets of W.I.G. 1:100,000 tactical map, 600
dpi. They are black-and-white reproductions of original maps evacuated
from Poland to the West in September 1939. Reproductions were issued in
1942 by the Wojskowy Instytut Geograficzny based, by that time, in
Edinburg.
This edition is nearly identical to the original, pre-WW2 edition,
although different reproduction technology was used, and some older
sheets, originally from 1920s, were given WIG grid lines. It is worth
paying attention to the original publication dated at the centre of the
bottom margin as, in some cases, reproductions are based on later
editions than the maps available in our main index sheet.
- courtesy of
biblioteki Wells Library Map Collections,
Indiana University, some
750 sheets of a 1:50,000 Soviet map
(600 dpi) have been added. The sheets partly coincide with the earlier
scans obtained from the German University of Greifswald, but quite a
large number of sheets complement the coverage.
- courtesy of
The Library of Congress, with
help from our partners at
easteurotopo.org, we have
received a new batch of 3-verst maps, of which a majority are
Russian and Soviet originals,
and the rest are
German reproductions from WW1.
- several new town plans from the Library of Congress, mainly covering
European part of Russia,
including some post-WW2, town plans of Moscow, Leningrad, Odessa,
possibly produced by the CIA, and one, interesting war-time,
German plan of a Ukrainian city of Stalino,
currently well-known under a different name of Donetsk.
