Soviet General Staff General Terrain Evaluation Map H-37 Al-Jawf 1:1,000,000 (Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia)

Military Topographic Directorate - Managing Editor: I.A. Medvedev

Published by General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR, Moscow, 1973

About this Item

Colour printed paper map 64x58cm, labelled in the Cyrillic alphabet, compiled and published 1973. Very good, folded, lightly creased. This shows northern Saudi Arabia and its borders, approximately centred on Al-Jawf with Tabuk and environs (SW) and Turaif (N). Features include settlements defined by number of inhabitants, the railway, various types of road, caravan routes or pack trails, airstrips, and several types of physical features. Two key diagrams locate each sheet, and demarcate administrative divisions. This was issued as part of the major global mapping programme by the Military Topographic Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR, during 1950-90. Maps comply with International Map of the World standards, with each quadrangle on a 1:1,000,000 scale identified by lettered bands and numbered zones. Sources are not named, but for the wider series included a mix of existing maps and guidebooks, the Zenit Satellite Programme (from the 1960s), and "boots on the ground". (Reference: Davies & Kent, The Red Atlas, 2017). Seller Inventory # 4975

Bibliographic Details

Title: Soviet General Staff General Terrain ...

Publisher: General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR, Moscow

Publication Date: 1973

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Very Good