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Ray Notgrass discusses the Soviet Union's extensive project to map the world, highlighting the detail and scale of the effort.

The former Soviet Union had a project to map the entire world. They produced over one million distinct maps of places around the world. On his latest Exploring History podcast, Ray Notgrass discusses this amazing project and the amazing detail work that went into it. Read the transcript and find more resources: https://shop.notgrass.com/blog/exploring-history-podcast-9/secret-soviet-documents-revealed-313 Homeschool curriculum and resources for all ages: https://notgrass.com/ Supplemental v...

People in this episode

Host: Ray Notgrass

Topics covered

• Soviet mapping project
• cartography
• Cold War history
• geopolitics
• historical documents

Keywords

• Soviet Union
• maps
• cartography
• history
• Ray Notgrass
• Exploring History
• geopolitics

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Organizations: Soviet Union

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