Cyrillic: List of Map-Making Organizations

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This list provides names of map-making organizations in transliteration of the Cyrillic, original Cyrillic, English translation, and brief description of the map-making roles.

The order is by English alphabet of the original Cyrillic name:

General'nii Shtab Krasnoi Armii
General Staff of the Red Army

This organization started mapmaking in the late 1930's. It revised surveys done by earlier organizations with its first edition maps coming out in the early 1940's.

General'nii Shtab RKKA
General Staff of the Revolutionary Command, Red Army

This organization is the predecessor of the General Staff, Red Army. Its name can be found on maps from the mid-1930's until 1940.

Glavnoe Geodezicheskoe Upravlenie
Central Geodesic Headquarters

Glavnoe Upravlenie Geodezii i Kartgorafii
Central Headquarters of Geodeism and Cartography

The post-World War II name of the Central Headquarters of Geodeism and Cartography at the Coucil of National Comissars of the USSR. In the 1950's, its publishers were Sovete ministrov SSSR and later, MVD. From 1960 on, its publisher was Ministerstva geologii i okhrany nedr SSSR

Glavnoe Upravlenie Geodezii i Kartografii pri SKK SSSR
Central Headquarters of Geodeism and Cartography at the Council of National Comissars of the USSR

Moskvskii Kartoizdatel'skii Otdel
Moscow Map-Production Office

Map-making office that began in the tsarist era and ended in 1921.

Upravlenie Voennikh Topografov
Headquarters of Military Topography

Upravlenie Voennikh Topografov RKKA
Headquarters of Military Topography, Revolutionary Command of the Red Army

Voennikh-Topograficheskoe Upravlenie
Military Topography Headquarters

Voenno-Topograficheskavo Otdela
Military Topographical Office

Tsarist predecessor of the Military Topography Headquarters.

If you find on a map an organization not on our list, notify the staff of Government Information, Maps and Microform Services at ET2 in the Wells Library at libet2@indiana.edu.