SMALL-SCALE GENERAL REFERENCE MAPS OF OBLAST-LEVEL ADMINISTRATIVE-TERRITORIAL UNITS

The authors outline their experience in the design and compilation of a new type of general reference economic map for oblast-level units of the Russian Federation. The maps are intended as advanced products (in terms of comprehensiveness, quality of generalization, and practical utility). More specifically, the program leading to the development of 1:500,000- to 1:1,250,000-scale maps of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and Primorskiy and Khabarovsk krays of the Russian Far East is reviewed with an eye toward identification of organizational and methodological principles appropriate to mapping programs in administrative-territorial units elsewhere in the Russian Federation. A concluding section presents one variant of a legend that can be used for such maps. Translated by: Edward Torrey, Alexandria, VA 22308 from: Izvestiya Rossiyskogo Geograficheskogo Obshchestva, 1995, No. 4, pp. 11-16.