Atlas Mira

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. 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. A similar Russian project "Bolshoi Sovietskii Atlas Mira", intended 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
* [http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/toolbox/map/index.html?/access/helpdesk/help/toolbox/map/bolshoisovietskiiatlasmiraprojection.html&http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&q=%22Atlas+Mira%22&btnG=Google+Search "Bolshoi Sovietskii Atlas Mira Projection"] , The MathWorks, accessed March 28, 2007
*Theodore Shabad, [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0016-7428(195604)46%3A2%3C289%3AAM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23 "Atlas Mira"] , "Geographical Review", Vol. 46, No. 2 (Apr., 1956), pp. 289-291

*Terence Armstrong, [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0016-7398(196603)132%3A1%3C157%3AFAM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F Fiziko-Geograficheskiy Atlas"] , "The Geographical Journal", Vol. 132, No. 1 (Mar., 1966), p. 157