Soviet Union Location On World Map
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Soviet union location on world map. Location map of the soviet union. Place names are in local language in roman script so for example all irish places are named solely with their irish name. It was two and a half times the size of the united states and only slightly smaller in land area than the entire continent of north america. The vast country stretched across large portion of both eastern europe and central and northern asia.
The non secret карта мира karta mira world map at scale of 1 2 500 000 in over 270 sheets was produced by the soviet bloc in 1960s 70s. Sheet 35 for example covering the british isles was produced in berlin in 1965. Other sheets were produced in other warsaw pact countries to the same standards and specification. This file is licensed under the creative commons attribution share.
The soviet union was experiencing political and economic turmoil by 1991 prompting the baltic republics to disaffiliate from the union. This map shows where russia is located on the world map. Geographic area throughout the 20th century the soviet union by total area was the largest country in the world occupying 22 400 000 square kilometers or 8 65 million square miles. The geographic boundaries of the soviet union varied with time but after the last major territorial annexations of the baltic states eastern poland bessarabia and certain other territories during world war ii from 1945 until dissolution the boundaries approximately corresponded to those of late imperial russia with the notable exclusions of poland and finland.
The soviet union was the largest country in the world covering approximately one seventh of earth s land surface. The soviet union officially the union of soviet socialist republics ussr was a federal socialist state in northern eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991 and was the largest country in the world. 21 september 2013 16 42 16. Map of soviet union one of the important political and military power in the world the soviet union was surrounded with norway finland the baltic sea poland czechoslovakia hungary and romania in the west and the black sea turkey iran afghanistan china mongolia and north korea in the south.
Russia location on the world map click to see large. Finland map the union of soviet socialist republics commonly abbreviated to the ussr or the soviet union was a constitutionally socialist state in eurasia which existed between 1922 and 1991 ruled as a single party state by the communist party from its foundation until 1990 with its capital as moscow. The maps are in english and russian. Own work based on.
Nominally a union of multiple national soviet republics in practice its government and economy were highly centralized it was a one party state governed by the communist party with moscow as its capital in its largest republic the russian sfsr other major urban centers were leningrad kiev. After the dissolution of the ussr on december 25 1991 russia underwent a major economic crisis leading to high death rates low birth rates and the.