During the Cold War, the Soviet military undertook a secret mapping program that’s only recently come to light in the West. Military cartographers created hundreds of thousands of maps and ...

Drawing on graph paper with blue grid background and a black outline of the Soviet Union at lower right with rectilinear border added in graphite. Above, four additional representations of the Soviet ...

In his book The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World, John Davies pores over the maps, including those that were created of London.Here, we look at five extracts from a ...