Cyrillic: Areas within Soviet Military Maps by Place

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List of Regions/Areas within Soviet Military Map Series (1920's-1940's)

This list is to assist in matching places with respective military map series numbers. The places listed by country followed by regions (oblasti) or other areas.

Maps prior to the mid-1920's had the following system dividing the area into quadrants:

• The initial Roman number represents the area within a certain latitude.
• The first number represents the area within a certain longitude.

Maps from the mid-1920's until the mid-1940's have the following headings representing military code and classification:

• The initial letter represents an area within a certain latitude.
• The first number represents a specific quadrant within the latitude area. The lower the number, the more west the area.
• The second number represents a sub-quadrant of the previous number.

Some 1:50000 and 1:25000 scale maps have a second letter which follows the second number and focuses on a specific quarter of the subquadrant. These quarters are represented by the first four letters of the Russian alphabet (transliterated into English as A,B,C,D).

A - northwest quarter | B - northeast quarter | C - southwest quarter | D - southeast quarter

Some 1:25000 scale maps will have an additional "A,B,C,D" and divide the previous letter in the same way for the same purpose.

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