Georgia Set Maps

Sak'art'velos soc'ialistur Sabcot'a respublikis sazogado ruka [General Map of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic]. Cartographic Institute of Georgia and the state publishing house with the assistance of Prof. Al. Javakishvili. (Tiflis: Sak'art'velos saxelmcip'o gamomc'emloba, 1931-32). Photostats, black-and-white. Scale 1:200,000. Filed under LC call number G7130 s200 .G4

Set of twelve maps compiled by the Georgian Cartographic Institute in the early 1930s. Maps depict cities, towns, and villages; place names; locations of buildings; boundaries; highways and roads; railroads; rivers and irrigation canals; vegetation; and relief by spot heights. Includes legend. Copies from the originals at one time in the possession of Henry Field of the O.S.S. Title, place names, and legend all in Georgian. Cartouche includes the emblem of the G.S.S.R.

Title supplied by cataloger.

[Maps of the Boundary Area between Georgia and Turkey]. Turkey. General Map Directorate. (Istanbul: Hartia Genel Müdürlügü, 1936-). Maps, bi-tonal. Scale 1:42,000. Filed under LC call number G7121 .F2 s42 .T8

Set of maps prepared by Turkey's General Map Directorate in the 1930s to depict the area around the international border between Turkey and Soviet Russia. Coverage extends roughly from Erzurum, Turkey, to Tiflis, Georgia. Depicts cities, towns, and villages; place names; the international border in red; highways, roads, and paths; cultivated lands and vegetation; and relief by contours, hachures, and spot heights. Extent of coverage uncertain, and no graphic index accompanies the set.

Sheets variously include printed sheet names and numbers, with additional sheet numbers annotated in pencil, i.e. "Sirazli (XXXVI-34)" "XVIII-17-A"; "Vaslop / Hizabavra" "XIV-14-B"

A few sheets contain legends and glossaries.

Voennaia topograficheskaia karta Gruzinskoi S.S.R.] / Generalʹnyĭ shtab. ([Moscow?]: Generalʹnyĭ shtab, [1967- ]). Maps in color. Scale 1:100,000. 1 cm. to 1 km. Filed under LC call number G7130 s100 .S6

Standard Soviet military topographic quadrangle maps of Georgia at 1:100,000 scale issued in the 1960s-70s. Library holds partial Contents: 11-37-021. K-37-21. Gantiadi -- 11-38-062. K-38-62. Kutaisi -- 11-38-078. K-38-78. Tbilisi -- 11-38-106. K-38-106. Dzhumaĭ.

Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Relief also shown by landform drawings on some sheets. Depths shown by contours and soundings on some sheets.

Name of jurisdiction[s] covered by sheet quadrangle appears in upper margin at left, e.g.: Gruzinskaia SSR -- SSSR, Gruzinskaia SSR -- Gruzinskaia SSR Abkhazskaia ASSR -- SSSR. Gruz. SSR Adzh. ASSR. Turtsiia vilaĭet Artvin -- SSSR. RSFSR Krasnodarskiĭ kraĭ. Gruz. SSR Abkhazskaia ASSR.

Various eds. of some sheets. Includes notes, diagrams, and graph in lower margin. In Russian.

Administration

Territoriia Gryzii v Administrativnom delenii Rossiiskoi Imperii b Kontsy XIX V. ([Moscow]: s.n., [198-]). Map, colored. Scale 1:2,000,000. Filed under LC call number G7131 .F7 1899 .T4

Modern map of Georgia's historical administrative divisions by the end of the nineteenth century. Shows state, gubernia, oblast, okrug, and county boundaries; cities and towns; place names; roads; railroads; and rivers. Includes legend. Includes an indexed table of administrative division names. Includes an inset depicting the gradual accession of Georgia by Russia in eight increments, by color, from 1801 to 1878.

Administrativniaia Karta Gruzinskoi SSR. (Tbilisi: GUGSK, NKVD, 1938). Offset lithograph, color. Scale 1:500,000. Filed under USSR -- Georgian SSR -- Administrative -- 1938 -- 1:500,000 -- GUGK

Late 1930s NKVD administrative map of Georgia. Shows boundaries and administrative subdivisions; towns and villages; place names; air routes; railroads; roads and trails; industrial sites; mines; hydroelectric stations; machine-tractor stations; ports; and rivers, lakes, and canals. Includes a list of sixty-five raions and raion centers, as well as legend of main features.

Gruzinskaia SSR, dlia sluzhebnogo pol'zobania. (Moscow: GUGK, 1946). Offset lithograph, color. Scale 1:500,000. Filed under USSR -- Georgian SSR -- Administrative -- 1946 -- 1:500,000 -- GUGK

Soviet-era administrative map of Georgia from the mid 1940s. Depicts cities, towns, and villages; place names; boundary lines and administrative divisions; railroads; highways, roads, trails, and passes; rivers, lakes, and canals; submerged lands; lands under cultivation; and bathymetry by depths and relief by spot heights. Include list of seventy-two raions and raion centers.

Gruzinskaia SSR. (Moscow: GUGK, 1956). Offset lithograph, color. Scale 1:600,000. Filed under USSR -- Georgian SSR -- Administrative -- 1956 -- 1:600,000 -- GUGK

Mid 1950s Soviet map emphasizing Georgia's administrative divisions. Depicts cities, towns, and villages; place names; boundaries and administrative subdivisions; roads and passes; railroads; rivers, lakes, and canals; resorts; vegetation; submerged lands; and relief by shading. Includes legend. Includes a list of sevety-one raions and raion centers, including those for Abkhazia, Adjara, and South Ossetia.

Gruzinskaia SSR. (Moscow: GUGK, 1959). Offset lithograph, color. Scale 1:600,000. Filed under USSR -- Georgian SSR -- Administrative -- 1959 -- 1:600,000 -- GUGK

Soviet administrative map of Georgia from the late 1950s. Depicts cities, towns, and villages; place names; borders, as well as boundaries of autonomous oblasts and raions; roads and passes; railroads; rivers, lakes, and canals; glaciers; forests; submerged lands; and relief by shading and a few spot heights. Includes legend. Includes a list of sixty-six raions and raion centers for Georgia proper, Abkhazia, Ajaria, and South Ossetia.

Sak'art'velos SSR. [Georgian SSR.] (Moscow: SSRK geologiis saministro geodeziisa da kartograp'iis mt'avari sammart'velo, 1966). Offset lithograph, color. Scale 1:600,000. Filed under USSR -- Georgian SSR -- Administrative -- 1966 -- 1:600,000 -- GUGK

Soviet-era school map of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic from the mid 1960s illustrating the republic's administrative and political divisions. Shows cities, towns, and villages; place names in Georgian; republic, oblast, and raion boundaries; reserves; railroads; roads and passes; ships courses and distances, and ports; rivers, lakes, and canals; mountain ranges and snow peaks; submerged lands; and relief by shading and a few spot heights. Includes legend. Includes inset with indexed table of administrative divisions as of January 15, 1966, including fifty-two raions and raion centers for Georgia proper, six raions and raion centers for Abkhazia, five for Ajaria, and four for South Ossetia.

Gruzinskaia SSR. (Moscow: GUGK, 1969). Offset lithograph, color. Scale 1:600,000. Filed under LC call number G7130 1965 .S6

Soviet administrative map of Georgia from the late 1960s. (Despite call number, map was published in 1969). Shows cities, towns, and villages; place names; borders, as well as boundaries of republics, oblasts, and raions; reserves; roads and passes; railroads; rivers, lakes, and irrigation canals; glaciers; resorts; submerged lands; and relief by shading and a few spot heights. Includes legend. Includes a list of sixty-seven raions and raion centers, including those for Abkhazia, Ajaria, and South Ossetia. Division holds later editions of the map.

Black Sea Coast

Karte Chernomorskogo Poberzh'ia Gruzinskoi SSR. (Tbilisi:  GUGK/NKVD, 1938). Map, colored.  Scale 1:500,000.  Filed under USSR -- Georgian SSR -- Black Sea Coast -- 1938 -- 1:500,000 -- GUGK/NKVD

Detailed topographic NKVD map of Georgia's Black Sea Coast from late 1930s.  Shows cities, towns, and villages; place names; highways, roads, and trails; railroads; factories and tractor works; hydroelectric plants; bridges; ports; passes; rivers; canals; snow capped peaks; and relief by contours, shaded tinting, and spot heights. Includes a list of raions and raion centers keyed to the map. Includes insets of administrative divisions and hypsometric elevations. Includes a legend of symbols.

Cities and Towns Single Maps

Batum. (Lepzig: Wagner & Debes, [192-]). Photostat, black-and-white. Scale 1:17,500. Filed under LC call number G7134 .B3 192- .W3

Photostat of small German commercial map of Batumi from the 1920s. Shows streets, railroad lines, Naptha Harbor. Indexed to points of interest.

Statdtplan von Batum. ([Berlin]: Reichsamt für Landesaufnahme, 1942). Photostat, black-and-white. Scale 1:15,000. Filed under LC call number G7134 .B3 1942 .G4

Basic map of the city of Batumi showing grid pattern of streets, densely settled area, railroad lines, and building locations. Verso contains map of Melitopol and vicinity.

Batum. ([Berlin]: Heeresgruppe A 1a Mess. Kartenbatterie, [1942]). Photostat, black-and-white. Scale 1:10,000. Filed under LC call number G7134 .B3 1942 .G4 MLC

German military map of the coastal city of Batumi from around 1942. Shows street grid pattern, railroads, and the locations of numerous military objectives and targets, i.e. port and port facilities, oil tanks, oil refineries, munitions depots, railroad yard, government buildings, factory, hospitals, troop barracks, and forts.

Stadtplan Kutais. (S.l.: Abw. Kdo. 101/I WL (Trupp Pz. AOK1, 194-). Photostat, black-and-white. Scale 1:9000. Filed under LC call number G7134 K8 194- .G4

Photostat of German military map of Kutaisi from the Second World War. Shows streets, bridges, canals, railroad lines, and buildings. List identifies thirty-one military objectives and/or targets within the city, i.e. barracks, factories, train depot, hospital, airports, government buildings, bridges, etc., and keys each by number. Includes legend.

Otschemtschiry. ([Berlin]: Germany. Heere. Generalstab, 1941). Photostat, black-and-white, overprinted in red ink. Scale 1:50,000. Filed under LC call number G7134 .O3A1 1941. G4

Photostat of German map of the coastal town of Ochamchire and its environs from the Second World War. Depicts the town and a few neighboring communities, roads, streams, and vegetation. The town harbor, about 2.5 miles northwest of the town itself, is outlined in red ink, and identified by the number "4516."

Géorgie Port de Poti d'apres les travaux russes les plus recents. (S.l.: s.n., 1915). Photostat, black-and-white. Scale 1:13,300. Filed under LC call number G7134 .P6P55 1915 .G3

Photostat of original, source not cited, of the port city of Poti. Shows the city; a hospital; the port, i.e. the moles, the basin, a dock; directional lights; and soundings in meters.

Ssamtredia. (S.l.: Germany. Heere. Generalstab, 1942). Photomap. Scale 1:29,000. Filed under LC call number G7134 .S3A4 1942 .G4

Luftwaffe photomap indicating the locations of the road and railroad bridges leading to the town of Samtredia, Imereti, Georgia in 1942. Includes brief descriptions of the four bridges, as well as coordinate/compilation data.

Tiflis I. (Leipzig: Wagner & Debes, [190-]). Photostat, black-and-white. Scale 1:16,500. Filed under LC call number G7134 .T3 1900 .W3

Photostat of early twentieth century commercial map of Tiflis. Shows streets and some buildings, and identifies prominent locations. Relief by hachures. Indexed to a few points of interest.

Tiflis II. Inner Town. (Leipzig: Wagner & Debes [190-]). Photostat, black-and-white. Scale 1:7,050. Filed under LC call number G7134 .T3 190- .W31

Photostat of early twentieth century commercial map of central Tiflis. Identifies streets and prominent locations. Some relief by hachuring.

Plan Goroda Tiflisa. Sostavlennyi po Plany Zemlemernago Otdela Tifliskoi Gorodskoi Upravy. (Tiflis: Izdanie Kantseliarii Namestnika ego Imperatorskago Velichestva na Kavkaza, 1913). Map, colored. Scale 1:8,400. Filed under LC call number G7134 .T3 1913 .Z4

Detailed Imperial Russian map of Tiflis from 1913. Depicts streets and street names; alleys; blind alleys; thoroughfares; forests, public squares, and parks; government and public buildings; railroads; tram lines; police districts; cemeteries and city limits. Includes list of government, public, and private institutions marked on the map; a list of streets and boulevards; and a legend. Northwest portion of map missing.

G. S. I. Transcaucasia Tiflis No. 9, 1919. (S.l.: s.n., 1919). Photostat, black-and-white. Scale 1:42,000. Filed under LC call number G7134 .T3A1 1919 .G8

Photocopy of likely British or American map, source not cited, of Tiflis and its environs from 1919. Shows the city and its surrounding areas to the north, west, and south; place names in English; roads; railroad; land under cultivation; significant local features; and relief by contour and spot heights. Map may have been prepared for military purposes, possibly in use during Civil War, as it distinguishes four kinds of roads: metaled roads fit for lorries; metaled roads fit for Ford vans; unmetaled roads for artillery; and tracts for pack animals. Map damaged; northeast quarter missing.

Plana Goroda Tiflisa. (Tiflis: izdanie koop. izd. t-va '"dryz'ia knigi," 1929). Photostat, black-and-white. Scale 1:8,400. Filed under LC call number G7134 .T3 1929 .K6 MLC

Photostat of original map, source not cited, of Tiflis from the late 1920s. Depicts streets and street names; built-up areas of the city; parks, forests, and kitchen gardens; cemeteries; tram lines; railroad lines; and buildings.

Plan of Tiflis. (Moscow: s.n., 1932). Photostat, black-and-white. Scale 1:13,800. Filed under LC call number G7134 .T3 1932 .P4

Photostat of original map, in English, annotated as taken from "Guidebook for Travelers Through Transcaucasia," 1932, depicting the city of Tiflis as it appeared in the early 1930s. Shows streets and street names; constructed blocks of houses and those under construction; parks, forests, and kitchen gardens; cemeteries; railroad lines; buildings. Note indicates that the original was in the possession of Henry Field, O.S.S.

Stadtplan von Tbilissi (Tiflis). ([Berlin]: s.n., 1941). Offset lithograph, color. Scale 1:7,500. Filed under LC call number G7134 .T3 1941 .G4

German Army map of Tbilisi from World War II. Depicts streets and street names; built-up areas; public buildings and military installations; railroad lines and train station; bridges across the Kura River; parks and uncultivated lands; and cemeteries. Includes an index of street names.

Kratkii putevoditel' po Gorodu Tbilisi. I. V. Kochinashvili. (Tbilisi: [Sabchata Sakartvelo], 1958). Offset lithograph, color. Scale not given. Filed under LC call number G7134 .T3 1958 .K6

Soviet pictorial tourist map of Tbilisi from the late 1950s. Depicts streets, parks, squares, and significant buildings and features pictorially. Indexed to points of interest. Includes a list of eight prominent public squares. Guidebook filed with map.

Tbilisi. Putevoditel' 1966. (Tbilisi: s.n., 1966). Offset lithograph, colored. Scale not given. Filed under LC call number G7134 .T3 1966 .K6

Tourist map of Tbilisi from 1966 in celebration of its thirtieth anniversary as the capital of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic and when its name officially changed from Tiflis to Tbilisi. Shows street and street names. Includes lists of places for the jubilee celebration and hotels. Also includes a schematic inset identifying modes of transportation for tourists, including its newly-opened metro system.

Cities and Towns Set Maps

Batum und Umgebung. ([Berlin]: Generalstab des Heers. Abteilung für Kriegskarten u. Vermessungswesen, 1940-41). Maps, colored. Scale 1:100,000.  Filed under LC call number G7134 .B38A1 s100 .G4

Set of four medium-scale Germany military topographic maps of Batumi and its environs from the Second World War. Roughly half of the coverage includes southwestern Georgia and the other half northeastern Anatolia. Maps show cities, towns, and villages; place names; railroads; roads and paths; categories of land types, i.e. forests, meadows, gardens, orchards, vineyards, etc.; various cultural features, i.e., churches, cemeteries, windmills, factories, ruins, etc.; rivers, lakes, and numerous categories of bridges; and relief by contours and spot heights. Graphic index accompanies set.

Sheets include lists of abbreviations, and transcriptions of the Russian and German alphabets.

Climate

Gruzinskaia SSR Klimaticheskaia Karta. (Moscow: GUGK, 1957). Offset lithograph, color. Scale 1:600,000. Filed under USSR -- Georgian SSR -- Climate -- 1957 -- 1:600,000 -- GUGK

Soviet map from the mid 1950s illustrating Georgia's climate. Identifies fourteen climatic zones by color; regional climactic boundaries; cities, towns, and villages; place names; mountain ranges; rivers and canals; and relief by shading. Includes a graphic scale indicating annual variation in temperatures and precipitation in the country's climatic zones, showing for each month mean annual temperature in Celsius and levels of precipitation in meters. Legend keyed to climatic zones by color and number. Includes inset, with legend, indicating annual precipitation levels.

Economy

Carte Économique de la Géorgie. Dressée par V. Babet. (Paris: E. Durand, 1920]). Chromolithograph. Scale 1:1,680,000. Filed under USSR -- Georgian SSR -- "Carte Economique" -- [1920?] -- 1:1,680,000 -- V. Babet

French economic map of Georgia from 1920 emphasizing its mineral resources and agricultural regions. Map identifies mineral deposits; various agricultural areas; and also depicts towns and villages, roads, railroads, glaciers, Georgia's historical frontiers with Russia, and its contemporary boundaries. Includes a list of regions of special products, i.e. tobacco, tea, olives, etc. Accompanied Babet's Les richesses naturelles de la Géorgie; richesses minières . . .(1920).

Geology

Geologicheskii Komitet. Detal'naia Geologicheskaia Kata Tkvarchel'skogo Uglenoskogo Raiona. Topograficheskaia Karta po ploshadi rek B. Makhme, Kheli-Kvara and Agyrvo-Distabl'is / Carte Gèologique détaillée de la région houllère de Tkvartchely. Carte Topographique du bassin des rivières Bolehoï Makhmé, Khéli-Kvara et Aghyrvo-Distabliss. ([Tbilisi: S.n, 1926). Lithograph. Scale 1:8,400. Filed under USSR -- Georgian SSR -- Geology -- 1926 -- 1:8,400 -- Geologicheskiy Komiteté

Topographic map of the Tkvartcheli coal region in Abkhazia, Georgia, primarily along the three principal river basins. Shows villages, place names, roads, rivers, relief by contours and spot heights, as well as a series of un-ascertained numbered locations. Annotation on verso indicates map is from atlas at USGS titled "Geologicheskiy Komitet Trudya Novaya Seria VPY. 189 Leningrad, 1928."

Geologicheskaia Karta oblasti proekturemykh moshchnykh gidrolelektrorostantsii Gruzii b basseinakh Ingura, Tsenis-Tskhali, Riona i Kury. B. Meffert. 1932./ Geological Map of the region of powerful hydroelectric stations of Georgia in the basins of Ingur, Tskenis-Tskhali, Rion and Kura Rivers. By B. Meffert. 1932. (Leningrad: Vsesoiuzka Geologo-Razvedochnoe Obshchestvo, 1932.) Chromolithograph. Scale 1:200,000. Filed under USSR -- Georgian SSR -- Geology -- 1932 -- 1:200,000 -- B. Meffert

Soviet-era geological map of the Imereti region containing the hydroelectric stations along the Ingur, Tskenis-Tskhali, Rion, and Kura rivers. Depicts about thirty-five lithological facies and other geological features by symbol and color. Also shows towns and villages, place names, and rivers. Includes legend and a profile of a geological cross-section. Map title and legend in English and Russian.

History

Zvelis Sak'art'veloysa: sazagado k'arta [Of Old Georgia: general map]. Compiled and drawn by N. I. Tsilosani; lithography by K. Meskiev. (S.l.: s.n., no date). Lithograph, black and white. Scale 1:3,360,000. Filed under Georgia (republic) -- History -- Queen Thmar's period (ca. 1100s) -- 1:3,360,000 -- In Georgian

Map depicts Georgia during the reign of Queen Tamara, 1184-1213, the period considered the nation's Golden Age. Shows towns and villages; place names; rivers and lakes; and relief by shading.

Mines and Minerals

Karta Rasprostraneniia Glavnukh Nemetallicheskikh Mestrozhdenii Gruzinskoi SSR.(Tbilisi:  Akademiia Nauk Gruzinskoi SSR, 1958). Map, black and white. Scale 1:1,000,000. Filed under USSR -- Georgian SSR -- Mines & Minerals -- 1958 -- 1:1,000,000 -- Akademia Nauk Gruzinskoii SSR

Map identifying 117 major non-metallic mineral deposits throughout Georgia. Legend identifies mineral type by symbol and keys name of deposit location by number. Also shows roads, railroads, and rivers.

Physical

Sak'art'velos SSR: sascavlo ruka [Georgian SSR: educational map]. K. S. Akopova. (Moscow: SSRK SSS geodeziisa da kartagrap'iis mt'avari sammart'velo, 1954). Offset lithograph, colored. Scale 1:500,000. Filed under USSR -- Georgian SSR -- Physical -- 1954 -- 1:500,000 -- in Georgian

Soviet physical school map of Georgia from the mid 1950s. Shows cities, towns, and villages; place names in Georgian; republic and oblast boundaries; railroads; highways roads, and passes; ships' courses and distances in the Black Sea; rivers, lakes, and irrigation canals; submerged lands; mountain ranges and snow peaks; economic resources and useful minerals; and relief by shaded tinting and spot heights. Includes legend.

Sak'art'velos SSR: p'izikuri ruka. Sascavlo ruka sasualo skolisat'vis. [Georgian SSR: physical map. Educational map for middle school.] (Moscow: SSRK SSS geodeziisa da kartograp'iis mt'avari sammart'velo, 1957). Offset lithograph, color. Scale 1:600,000. Filed under USSR -- Georgian SSR -- Physical -- 1957 -- 1:600,000 -- in Georgian

Mid 1950s Soviet physical school map of Georgia by the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, Chief Administration of Geodesy and Cartography. Depicts cities, towns, and villages; place names in Georgian; republic and oblast boundaries; railroads; major roads and passes; ships' courses and distances in the Black Sea; rivers, lakes, and irrigation canals; mountain ranges and snow peaks; submerged lands; economically useful minerals; sources of mineral waters; bathymetry by contours and shaded tinting; and relief by contours, shaded tinting, and spot heights. Includes legend, and tinted scale bars for bathymetry and relief. Includes an inset with an indexed list depicting the republic's physical-geographical regions.

Sak'art'velos SSR p'izikuri ruka. Sak'art'velos SSR p'izikuri geograp'iis saxelmzgvanelos danart'i. VII klasi. [Physical Map of the Georgian SSR. Text book supplement of the physical geography of the Georgian SSR. Class VII]. (Tbilisi: Dabecdilia SSRK SSS gkms T'bilisis kartp'abrikis, n.d.). Offset lithograph, color. Scale 1:1,000,000. Filed under USSR -- Georgian SSR -- Physical 1957 -- 1:100,000 -- in Georgian

Mid 1950s Soviet physical school map of Georgia. Shows cities and towns; place names in Georgian; republic and oblast boundaries; railroads; major roads and passes; rivers, lakes, and irrigation canals; mountain ranges and snow peaks; submerged lands; bathymetry by contours and shaded tinting; and relief by contours, shaded tinting, and spot heights. Includes legend, and tinted scale bars for bathymetry and relief. Includes an inset with an indexed list depicting the republic's physical-geographical regions.

Gruzinskaia SSR Fizicheskaia Karta. (Moscow: GUGK, 1958). Offset lithograph, color. Scale 1:600,000. Filed under USSR -- Georgian SSR -- Physical -- 1958 -- 1:600,000 -- GUGK

Soviet physical map of Georgia from the late 1950s. Shows cities, towns, and villages; place names; borders and autonomous oblast boundaries; roads and passes; railroads; sailing courses and distances; rivers, lakes, and canals; glaciers; useful minerals; and relief by contours, shaded tinting, and spot heights. Includes legend. Includes an inset titled Fiziko-Geograficheskie Oblasti i Raoini Gruzinskoe SSR, which depicts the republic as a set of three physical-geographical oblasts and eleven similarly-themed raions thereunder.

Gruzinskaia SSR Fizicheskaia Karta. (Moscow: GUGK, 1965). Offset lithograph, color. Scale 1:600,000. Filed under USSR -- Georgian SSR -- Physical -- 1965 -- 1:600,000 -- GUGK

Soviet physical map of Georgia from the mid 1960s. Shows cities, towns, and villages; place names; state, republic, and oblast boundaries, as well as limits of reserves; roads and passes; railroads; sailing courses and distances; rivers, lakes, and irrigation canals; glaciers; mountain ranges; petroleum deposits and useful minerals; cultural and historical sites; and relief by contours, hypsometric tinting, and spot heights. Includes an extensive legend. Includes a list of attractions in six Georgian cities.

Pictorial

Turistskaia Karta Gruzii. D. Dondua. (Tbilisi: S.n., 1958). Offset lithograph, color. No scale. Filed under USSR -- Georgian SSR -- Pictorial -- 1958 -- no scale -- Russian

Pictorial map of Georgia illustrating its travel and tourist features, and emphasizing its economic, agricultural, industrial, cultural, and wildlife advantages. Also identifies camp sites and mountain passes. Verso contains text and illustrations of significant cultural and natural places of interest.

Roads

Karta Voenno-Sukhumskoi Dorogi (Karachai-Abkhaziia). Sostaveli: Svishchev, V.N., Simonov, P.V., i Giubiev, A.N. (S.l.: Severokavkazkago Kraevogo Sovets OPTE, 1933). Photostat. Scale 1:200,000. Filed at USSR -- Georgia -- Roads -- 1933 -- 1:200,000

Photostat of original 1933 map, source not cited, of the Sukhumi Military Road (the Ancient Abkhaz Way) in Karachai-Abkhaziia from Sukhum-Kaje on the Black Sea coast to Krasnagorskaia in Karachai-Cherkessia. Map shows towns and villages; the highway; roads and paths; tourist route; passes; glaciers; camp sites; place names; and relief by shading and spot heights. Includes legend.

Soils

Sak'art'velos SSR: niadagebis ruka. [Georgian SSR: soil map.] (Moscow: SSRK SSS geodeziisa da kartograp'iis mt'avari sammart'velo, 1957). Offset lithograph, color. Scale 1:600,000.  Filed under USSR -- Georgian SSR -- Soils -- 1957 -- 1:600,000 -- GUGK -- in Georgian

Soviet soil school map of Georgia from the mid 1950s.  Depicts cities and towns; place names in Georgian; rivers; soil zones; bathymetry by contours; and relief by shading. Legend identifies seventeen categories of soils, indexed by color and number. Inset shows seven pictorial cross sections of soil types. Inset includes two longitudinal cross sections indicating soil type by elevation.

Travel and Tourism

Cherez Rokskii Pereval. (Moscow: GUGK, 1956). Offset lithograph, colored. Scales vary. Filed under USSR -- Georgian SSR -- Roka Pass (region) -- 1956 -- 1:250,000 -- GUGK

Main map titled Turistskaia Marshrutnaia Karta; Zachetnaia Chast Marsruta: Alagir - Tsei - Zaramag - Rokskii Pereval -- Dzhava -- Gori, depicts the trail through the Roka Pass from Alagir, North Ossetia, to Gori, Georgia. Also shows borders, railroads, roads and trails, camp sites, route objectives, cultivated lands, and forests. A list of tourist objectives describes each site and is keyed to the map by number. Verso includes a 1:1,000,000 topographic map of tourist routes in the Central Caucasus, as well as text and illustrations of tourist route no. 44 across the Roka Pass.

Voenno-Sukhumskaia Goroda. Turistskaia Marshrutnaia Karta. (Moscow: GUGK, 1956). Offset lithograph, colored. Scale 1:250,000. Filed under USSR -- Georgia SSR -- Recreation -- 1956 -- 1:250,000 -- GUGK

Tourist hiking map of the Sukhumi Military Road from Cherssk, Karachay-Cherkessia, to Sukhumi, Abkhazia. Shows towns and villages, roads and trails, borders, rivers, rocks and glaciers, elevation marks, vegetation, camp sites, tourist objectives, and shaded relief. A list of tourist objectives describes each site and is keyed to the map by number. Includes illustrations.

Marshrutnaia Turistskaia Skhema Voenno-Gruzinskaia Doroga. (Moscow: GUGK, 1958). Offset lithograph, color. Scale 1:200,000. Filed under USSR -- Georgian SSR -- Recreation -- 1958 -- 1:200,000 -- GUGK

Soviet tourist hiking map of the Georgian Military Highway between Vladikavkaz and Tbilisi in the late 1950s. Shows cities and towns; place names; the highway, the main track between communities, other tracks, and trails and passes; tourist routes and camps; major cultural features and tourist sites; rivers; vegetation; and relief by shaded tinting and spot heights. Includes a list and description of major tourist objectives in the vicinity of the route. Verso includes a lengthy description of major sites along the route. Division holds later editions of this map.

Marshrutnaia Turistskaia Skhema k Ozeru Ritsa i V Krasnuiu Poliany. (Moscow: GUGK, 1958). Offset lithograph, color. Scale 1:200,000. Filed under USSR -- Georgian SSR -- Roads (trails) -- 1958 -- 200,000 -- GUGK, and with unverified call number G7131 .P25 1958 .R84

Soviet-era tourist map depicting the travel route from Sochi south to Ozera Ritsa, and then north to Krasnaia Poliana and back to Sochi. Shows towns and villages; place names; the railroad; the highway; roads, trails and passes; the tourist route; rivers; waterfalls; mineral waters; mountains, sands, vegetation, and submerged lands; tourist and camping sites; significant cultural features, i.e. architectural and battle monuments, revolutionary monuments, museums, ruins, caves, etc.; and relief by shaded tinting and hachuring. Includes a list and description of tourist objectives. Verso includes a lengthy description of major tourist sites.

Turistskaia Marshrutnaia Skhema. Pasanauri - Chargali - Tianeti - Telavi. (Moscow: GUGK, 1961). Offset lithograph, color. Scale not given. Filed under USSR -- Georgia SSR -- "Pasanauri - Chargali - Tianeti - Telavi" -- Recreation -- 1961 -- no scale -- GUGK

Pictorial panoramic map of the tourist route from Pasanauri to Telavi. Depicts towns and villages pictorially; place names; the hiking route; tourist bases and camping sites; sites of architectural and archeological significance; museums; caves; rivers and streams; names of mountain ranges; and relief by shaded tinting. Verso includes text describing features along the route.

Gruzinskaia SSR. Turistskaia Skhema. (Moscow: GUGK, 1963). Offset lithograph, color. Scale not given. Filed under USSR -- Georgian SSR -- Recreation -- 1963 -- no scale -- GUGK

Pictorial panoramic Soviet tourist map of Georgia from the early 1960s. Depicts cities, towns, and villages pictorially; place names; roads; rivers; pictorial representation of agricultural, economic, and tourist activities; names of mountain ranges; names of select peaks with their elevations; and pictorial and shaded representation of relief. Includes illustrations and text describing twenty-two cultural and geographic sites of interest, keyed by number to the map. Text on verso. The division holds later editions with various kinds of information of this map.

Vegetation

Sak'art'velos SSR: mec'nareulobis ruka. Sascavlo ruka sasualo skolisat'vis. [Georgian SSR: vegetation map. Educational map for middle school.] (Moscow: SSRK SSS geodeziisa da kartograp'iis mt'avari sammart'velo, 1957). Offset lithograph, color. Scale 1;600,000. Filed under USSR -- Georgian SSR -- Vegetation -- 1957 -- 1:600,000 -- in Georgian

Soviet vegetation school map of Georgia from the mid-1950s. Shows cities and towns; place names in Georgian; rivers; major vegetation zones; snow capped peaks; bathymetry by contours; and relief by shading. Legend identifies fourteen vegetation zones, keyed by color and number, for higher and lower elevations. Inset, with indexed list, depicts the republic's eight major crop, pasture, and snow regions.

Karta Vosstanovlennogo Rastitel'nogo Pokrova Gruzinskoi SSR. N. N. Ketskhoveli. / Sakartvelos sssr-s aghdgenili mtsenareuli saparis ruka. n. n. K'etskhoveli. (Tbilisi: Akademii Nauk Gruzinskoii SSR, 1959). Color photocopy of map. 1:600,000. Filed under USSR -- Georgia -- Vegetation -- 1959 -- 1:600,000 -- Tbilisi, Academy of Sciences

Color photocopy of dual-language, Soviet-era original map, source not cited, illustrating restored vegetation throughout Georgia from the late 1950s. Identifies forty-four species of vegetation by color, hatching, and number. Some rare and characteristic species identified by symbol. Includes keyed legend. Title, legend, and place names in Georgian and Russian. Map from monograph, "Rastitel'nii Pokrov Gruzii."

Wildlife

Georgian Zoogeographical Map. A. G. Dzhanashvli. (Moscow: GUGK, 1963 / Miami: Field Research Projects, 1968). Map, black-and-white. Scale 1:600,000. Filed under USSR -- Georgian SSR -- Animals -- 1968 -- 1:600,000 -- A. G. Dzhanashvili

Pictorial map, in English, illustrating the distribution of Georgia's wildlife, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes. Depicts wildlife pictorially, habitat zones, rivers, and a few place names. Legend identifies zoogeographical type by symbol, name, and number. Includes illustrations of various animals. English translation of Russian map.