Mapping Russian America
Author: Marvin W. Falk
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 6
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Author: Marvin W. Falk
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 6
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alekseĭ Vladimirovich Postnikov
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: 2015-06-15
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 1602232512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRussia first encountered Alaska in 1741 as part of the most ambitious and expensive expedition of the entire 18th century. During the next 126 years the struggle to develop and refine geographic knowledge of the vast region comprising northeastern Asia, the North Pacific, and Alaska met with many obstacles, including inclement weather, the chain of supply over great distances, the need to train expert navigators and cartographers, and false leads due to spurious voyage accounts. For much of this era, critical geographic knowledge was kept as a state secret in Russia and not shared, even with the very navigators and cartographers who were developing much needed maps and navigational aids. Despite this, a rich cartographic heritage developed to be carried forward into the American era. The traditional Russian cartographic methods were applied to new discoveries in Siberia and beyond. Early fur traders and explorers utilized this system which for a time co-existed with the new cartographic methodology utilized in Europe and adopted for use by the Russia of Peter the Great. It became an age of scientific exploration. Great Britain, France, Spain, but especially Russia, sent expeditions. An increasingly complete knowledge of the coasts of North America, with forays into the interior, emerged. Postnikov describes the explorations and richly illustrates how the resulting maps evolved and contributed to the world’s knowledge of one of the last great regions of the world to be explored.
Author: Michail D. Teben'kov
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alekseĭ Vladimirovich Postnikov
Publisher: American Geographical Society Collection of Golda Meir Libra
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 35
ISBN-13: 9781879281165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Davies
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017-10-17
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 022638960X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe “utterly fascinating” untold story of Soviet Russia’s global military mapping program—featuring many of the surprising maps that resulted (Marina Lewycka, author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian). From 1950 to 1990, the Soviet Army conducted a global topographic mapping program, creating large-scale maps for much of the world that included a diversity of detail that would have supported a full range of military planning. For big cities like New York, Washington, D.C., and London to towns like Pontiac, MI, and Galveston, TX, the Soviets gathered enough information to create street-level maps. The information on these maps ranged from the locations of factories and ports to building heights, road widths, and bridge capacities. Some of the detail suggests early satellite technology, while other specifics, like detailed depictions of depths and channels around rivers and harbors, could only have been gained by Soviet spies on the ground. The Red Atlas includes over 350 extracts from these incredible Cold War maps, exploring their provenance and cartographic techniques as well as what they can tell us about their makers and the Soviet initiatives that were going on all around us.
Author: Richard A. Pierce
Publisher: Kingston, Ont. : Limestone Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 600
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of biographies of 675 individuals who influenced developments in Alaska (Russian America) before 1867, including ordinary Russians, sovereigns, high court officials, British, French, Spanish and American seafarers, Finlanders and natives. Includes map and photographs.
Author: Frederick WHYMPER
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Published: 1868
Total Pages: 394
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Janey Levy
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2005-12-15
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9781404204164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the discovery and exploration of North America, focusing on the detailed maps created and used during this time.
Author: Aleksandr Ivanovich Alekseev
Publisher: Kingston, Ont. : Limestone Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on archival material, historical and geographic research, this book gives a detailed account of 125 years of Russian America (Alaska) from its establishment as a territory (in 1741) through the exploration of the Aleutian Islands and the North West part of North America, through its sale to the United States in 1867, from the Russian point of view. Analyses the economic position of the Russian-American Company and reasons for its liquidation and the sale of Russian America. Contains many illustrations, portraits and maps.