The Soviet Military Program that Secretly Mapped the Entire World - 1
Published 28 Dec 2017, 12:38 GMT
The Pentagon is visible at bottom left in this detail from a Soviet map of Washington, DC. printed in 1975.
Photograph by Images from The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped America, by John Davies and Alexander J. Kent, published by the University of Chicago PressThis Soviet map of lower Manhattan, printed in 1982, details ferry routes, subway stations, and bridges.
Photograph by Images from The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped America, by John Davies and Alexander J. Kent, published by the University of Chicago PressA Soviet map of Boston printed in 1979.
Photograph by Images from The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped America, by John Davies and Alexander J. Kent, published by the University of Chicago PressThe Soviets mapped North America at different scales, as seen in this 1959 small-scale map of the San Francisco Bay area.
Photograph by Images from The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped America, by John Davies and Alexander J. Kent, published by the University of Chicago PressThis small-scale map printed in 1981 shows the area around Montreal.
Photograph by Images from <i>The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped America</i>, by John Davies and Alexander J. Kent, published by the University of Chicago PressMontreal is shown in greater detail on this large-scale Soviet map printed in 1986.
Photograph by Images from The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped America, by John Davies and Alexander J. Kent, published by the University of Chicago PressThe Soviets also mapped European cities, including Copenhagen, shown here on a map printed in 1985.
Photograph by Images from The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped America, by John Davies and Alexander J. Kent, published by the University of Chicago PressThis 1982 Soviet map of London took up four panels, stitched together in this composite image.
Photograph by Images from The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped America, by John Davies and Alexander J. Kent, published by the University of Chicago PressThe Berlin Wall is outlined in magenta in this Soviet map printed in 1983.
Photograph by Images from The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped America, by John Davies and Alexander J. Kent, published by the University of Chicago PressThis red white and blue map of Zurich, Switzerland, printed in 1952, is an interesting departure from the typically more earthy Soviet cartographic color scheme.
Photograph by Images from The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped America, by John Davies and Alexander J. Kent, published by the University of Chicago Press