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Russian maps of Birmingham

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Peter Walker

gone but not forgotten
Did anyone see the article in Saturday's (24.04.07) Birmingham Post? Page 3 had a story about a military map prepared by the Russians. It was copied from a British street map, but is overprinted with street names and place names transliterated with Russian characters and phonetical spelling. Accordingt to this article, the maps were produced in Moscow, but issued to military bases all over the Soviet Union and to some satellite countries. When the Communist system collapsed, most of these were quietly destroyed in the Soviet Union and probably in East Germany, but in the Baltic Countries and Poland, then new nationalist governments were openly anti-Communist, and a few unscrupulous people acquired copies of them. It names two web sites which have information on these maps: www.sovietmaps.com and www.landmarkinfo.co.uk. I have not found out any way of downloading or getting CD or hard copy of the the map of Brum from these sites, but there are some fascinating detail samples from East London and Bournemouth which you can copy for free.
So the big map attached is just a scan of part of the map in the 'Post'.
Peter
 
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