The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World, by John Davies and Alex Kent Full details here


Reprints of large-scale city plans of selected US and UK cities are now avalable for sale Full details here


Above: Summary of British and Irish maps
Detailed list of known Soviet Military city plans of British and Irish cities

Below: Typical map sheet (Darlington)

Above: Typical map sheet (Darlington)
Below: Translation of List of Important Objects (Oxford)

Above: Translation of List of Important Objects (Oxford)
Below: Translation of typical Spravka (Exeter)

Above: Translation of typical Spravka (Exeter)
Below: Detail of marginalia

Above: Detail of marginalia
Below: Detail of derivation data (only appears on pre-1970s maps)

Above: Detail of derivation data (only appears on pre-1970s maps)
Belfast: compiled 1951 using 1:7,920 of 1947 1:10,000 of 1940 prepared for publishing 1964
Crewe:compiled 1956 using 1:10,560 of 1910,11 1:25,000 of 1951,52 prepared for publishing 1957

Below: The world-wide project

Summary list of all known large scale Soviet Military City Plans worldwide