Soviet General Staff Operational Map F-39-2 Al-Liwa Oasis 1:500,000 (United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia)

Military Topographic Directorate - Compiler: L.F. Surskaya; Editor: A.P. Sheptak

Published by General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR, Moscow, 1981

About this Item

Colour printed paper map 70x58cm, labelled in the Cyrillic alphabet, compiled from the 100,000 and 200,000 sheets 1978-9 and published 1981. Very good, folded, lightly creased. This presents the Oasis stretching up to the coast, part of which is covered. The border UAE-Saudi border is approximated, and regional boundaries have not been drawn owing to lack of information. Features include highways including under construction, minor roads, caravan routes or pack trails, airstrips, fuel depots, water towers, oil and gas fields, oil pipelines, wells, coastal shoals, reefs drying up, depths, heights, mounds, cliffs, palm groves, dense thickets of shrubs, depressions filled with water during the rains, passable salt marshes, gravel, dune types. Two key diagrams locate each sheet, and demarcate administrative divisions. This was issued as part of the major global mapping programme by the Military Topographic Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR, during 1950-90. Maps comply with International Map of the World standards, with each quadrangle on a 1:1,000,000 scale identified by lettered bands and numbered zones. Sources are not named, but for the wider series included a mix of existing maps and guidebooks, the Zenit Satellite Programme (from the 1960s), and "boots on the ground". (Reference: Davies & Kent, The Red Atlas, 2017).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Soviet General Staff Operational Map F-39-2 Al-Liwa Oasis 1:500,000 (United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia)
• Publisher: General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR, Moscow
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: Russian
• Binding: No Binding
• Condition: Very Good