Soviet Union On World Map

A map showing the former ussr.

Soviet union on world map. 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. These groups together made up more than two thirds of the total population in the late 1980s. It was also one of the most diverse with more than 100 distinct nationalities living within its borders the majority of the population however was made up of east slavs russians ukrainians and belorussians. The soviet union signed a non aggression pact with nazi germany on 23 august 1939.

The vast country stretched across large portion of both eastern europe and central and northern asia. Other sheets were produced in other warsaw pact countries to the same standards and specification. The soviet union was bordered by afghanistan czechoslovakia today czech republicand slovakia china finland hungary iran north korea mongolia norway poland romania and turkey resulting in about 20 000 km of borders additionally the country shared maritime borders with the usaand sweden. 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.

Sheet 35 for example covering the british isles was produced in berlin in 1965. In addition to stipulations of non aggression the treaty included a secret protocol that divided territories of romania poland lithuania latvia estonia and finland into german and soviet union spheres of influence anticipating potential territorial and political rearrangements of these countries in october and november 1940 german soviet talks about the potential of joining the axis took place in. The soviet union full name. Union of soviet socialist republics or ussr was a socialist state that was created by vladimir lenin in 1922.

During the period of its existence the union of soviet socialist republics was by area the world s largest country. Finland map the union of soviet socialist republicscommonly 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. With an area of 22 402 200 square kilometres 8 649 500 sq mi the soviet union was the world s largest country a status that is retained by the russian federation. 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.

Covering a sixth of earth s land surface its size was comparable to that of north america. There are 15 independent states that were former soviet republics. 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. Place names are in local language in roman script so for example all irish places are named solely with their irish name.