During the mutual frigidity country of war the Soviet Union created detailed maps for thousands of cities roughly the world. We don't knows just how the Russian armed forces completed such detailed maps of the west. Presumably they used freely available maps every bit the footing for their maps. However the Russian maps oft incorporate armed forces sites left off of western maps (for armed forces secrecy), thus they must bring been based to some extent on noesis gained from spying as well as espionage.
The Guardian has created a quiz based on a few of these Russian armed forces maps. In Can you lot gauge the earth urban total from its mutual frigidity country of war Soviet spy map? you lot are shown xi Soviet maps of western cities. All you lot bring to produce is pick out the urban total depicted from a selection of 4 answers. There are 11 maps inward total. The Soviet armed forces map of each urban total is as well as then detailed that the Guardian quiz is actually solely testing how good you lot know the 11 cities shown.
The Guardian quiz includes a link to the website of John Davies' mass on the map Soviet Military Mapping of the Cold War Era includes to a greater extent than information well-nigh the composition of the Soviet armed forces maps, the cities mapped as well as informed speculation on how the maps were made.
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