Cyrillic: Resource Guide

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This guide leads to resources about geography and cartography of East & Central Europe, Russia, Central Asia, and Mongolia in two ways:

Bibliography

Bibliographic information and short abstracts of books, media items (videotapes, films), journals and magazines (series themselves and articles), and websites.

Favorite Titles

• Hoffman, George W. The Balkans in Transition. New York, N.Y.: Van Nostrand Company. 1963. More on this title.
• Milner-Gulland, Robin with Nikolai Dejevsky. Cultural Atlas of Russia and the Former Soviet Union. New York, N.Y.: Checkmark Books. 1998. More on this title.
• Room, Adrian. Placenames of Russia and the Former Soviet Union. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1996. More on this title.

Additional Search Aids and Tools

• Cyrillic Language Transliteration Guide
• List of Regions/Areas within Soviet Military Map Series (1920's-1940's); Search by Place or Series Number
• Green Box Resources (a list of resources held by GPD)
• List of Cyrillic Map-Making Organizations
• Cyrillic Glossary of Map Related Terms
• Russian & Eastern European Institute