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The Caucasus: Cartographic Resources in the Library of Congress

Dagestan

Dagestan Single Maps

Dagestanskaia ASSR. (Moscow: GUGK, 1955). Photostat, black-and-white. Scale 1:600,000.  Filed under USSR -- RSFSR -- Dagestan ASSR -- 1955 -- 1:600,000 -- GUGK

Photostat of Soviet map of Dagestan from the mid 1950s.  Shows cities, towns, and villages; place names; borders and raoin boundaries; roads and passes; railroads; rivers and canals; and relief by shading. Includes a list of forty-one raions and raion centers.


Dagestanskaia ASSR / karta sostavlena Tbilisskoĭ kartograficheskoĭ fabrikoĭ GUGK v 1957 g. Glavnoe upravlenie geodezii i kartografii MVD SSSR, 1957. [Washington, D.C. : Central Intelligence Agency, 1958?] Map, colored. Scale [ca. 1:745,000]. Filed under LC call number G7063.D3 1957 .T2 1958

CIA reprint of 1957 Soviet map of Dagestan ASSR. Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Includes notes and indexed table of local administrative division names.

Administration

Dagestanskaia ASSR. (Moscow: GUGK, 1957). Offset lithograph, color. Scale 1:600,000. Filed under USSR -- RSFSR -- Dagestanskaia SSR -- 1957 -- 1:600,000 -- GUGK, and with unverified call number G7063 .D3 1957 .R8

Soviet map of Dagestan from 1957 emphasizing its political and administrative divisions. Shows cities, towns, and villages; place names; republic, oblast, and raion boundaries; reserves; roads and passes; railroads; rivers and canals; swamps; vegetation; salt marshes; dunes; and relief by shading and a few spot heights. Includes a list of forty-two raions and raion centers.


Dagestanskaia ASSR. Redaktor: S. D. Shteĭnberg. Tekhnicheskiĭ redaktor: O. V. Orlova. (Moscow: GUGK, 1970). Map, colored. Scale 1:600,000. Filed under LC call number G7063.D3 1970 .R8

Soviet map of Dagestan ASSR from 1970 showing administrative and political divisions. Depicts cities, towns, and villages; Soviet border, as well as republic and raion boundaries; reserves; roads and passes; railroads; rivers and canals; reservoirs; swamp lands; and relief by shading and spot heights Includes list of thirty-nine raions and raion centers. Includes legend.


Dagestanskaia ASSR. (Moscow: GUGK, 1974). Offset lithograph, color. Scale 1:600,000. Filed under LC call number G7073 .D3 1974 .R8

Soviet map of Dagestan ASSR from 1974 showing administrative and political divisions. Depicts cities, towns, and villages; republic and raion boundaries; reserves and sanctuaries; roads and passes; railroads; rivers and canals; swamp lands; mountain ranges; and relief by shading and spot heights. Includes legend. Includes a list of thirty-nine raions and raion centers.

Cities and Towns

Machatsch-Kala. Wehrwirtschaftskarte. 2 Ausgabe vom VII. 1942. ([German]: Le. Kart. Druck. Abt. (mot.) 532, Kartenbatterie / 613, 1942). Map, black and white. Scale 1:15,000. Filed under LC call number G7064 .M33A1 1942 .G4

Germany military economic map of Makhachkala from the Second World War. Shows streets but no street names; railroads and railway yard; densely populated areas; and potential military and economic objectives, such as industrial complexes, factories, oil refinery, fuel storage tanks, oil port, headquarters of the NKVD, barracks and military academy, fort, and harbor. Includes inset of harbor with numerous sites of interest identified. Verso includes inset of central city and index to points of interest.


Town Plan. Makhachkala. (Wash.: Central Intelligence Agency, 1962). Photolithograph, colored. Scale 1:25,000. Filed under LC call number G7064 .M33 1962 .U5

CIA reprint of British intelligence city map. Depicts streets, railroads, densely populated areas, and a few cultural features, i.e. jail, cemetery, hotel, university, railway station, etc. Includes insets of city center, Kaspiysk, and the city and its environs.

History

Arkheologichesakaia Karta Dagestana. (S.l.: s.n., [196-]). Black-and-white. Scale not given. Filed under USSR -- RSFSR -- Dagestanskoy ASSR -- Archeological map of Dagestan -- 196- -- no scale -- no author, and with unverified call number G7063 .D3 196- .A7

Map, possibly from the 1960s, showing the locations of over a thousand archeological and historical sites in Dagestan. Among the sites indicated are forts, kurgans, petroglyphs, inscriptions, passages, caves, treasure, cromlechs, sacrificial places, etc. Includes legend. Numbers at each site suggests map may have accompanied a descriptive text.

Physical

Dagestanskaia ASSR.; Fizicheskaia Uchebnaia Karta. (Moscow: GUGK, 1975). Offset lithograph, color. Scale 1:600,000. Filed at LC call number G7063 .D3C2 1975 .R8

1975 Soviet physical map of Dagestan. Shows cities, towns, and villages; republic borders; reserves and sanctuaries; roads and passes; railroads; rivers and canals; submerged lands; useful minerals; prominent cultural and historical sites; and depths by gradient tints and relief by contours, shading, and spot heights. Includes extensive legend. Also includes four insets, each with its own legend, depicting Dagestan's geology, climate, soils, and vegetation. Includes a list of cities with significant dates and other information.

Vegetation

Karta rastitelʹnosti Dagestanskoi ASSR. L.N. Chilikina i E.V. Shiffers. (Moscow: Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1960). Offset lithograph, colored. Scale 1:200,000. Filed under USSR -- RSFSR -- Dagestankoy ASSR -- Vegetation -- 1960 -- Scale 1:200,000 -- USSR Academy of Sciences, and with unverified LC call number G7063 .D3 1960 .A4

Soviet-era vegetation map of Dagestan ASSR from 1960 compiled and produced by the Dagestan Branch and Botanical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Map groups vegetation by six regions, and lists thirty vegetation types thereunder. Legend identifies vegetation by color, hatching, and symbols. Additional list of symbols and Latin names identifies thirty-seven species of plants. Map accompanied by text.