Mapping Russian America
Author | : Marvin W. Falk |
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Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 1987 |
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Author | : Marvin W. Falk |
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Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 1987 |
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Author | : Alekseĭ Vladimirovich Postnikov |
Publisher | : University of Alaska Press |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2015-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1602232512 |
Russia 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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Release | : 1981 |
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Author | : Alekseĭ Vladimirovich Postnikov |
Publisher | : American Geographical Society Collection of Golda Meir Libra |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Alaska |
ISBN | : 9781879281165 |
Author | : Richard A. Pierce |
Publisher | : Kingston, Ont. : Limestone Press |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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A 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 | : John Davies |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2017-10-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022638960X |
The “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 | : Frederick WHYMPER |
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Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1868 |
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Author | : Janey Levy |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2005-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781404204164 |
Describes the discovery and exploration of North America, focusing on the detailed maps created and used during this time.
Author | : Daniel P Curzon |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-03-14 |
Genre | : History |
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The Russian Expeditions: 1917-1920 relays the story of the Army's little-known expeditions in Russia at the end of the First World War. In early 1917, the Allied coalition in the First World War was in crisis as German pressure pushed the Russian Empire to the brink of collapse. Desperate to maintain the Eastern Front against the Central Powers, the Allies intervened. However, with their resources committed elsewhere, they needed a source of military forces for deployment to Russia. President Woodrow Wilson agreed to supply American troops for two expeditions: the American North Russia Expeditionary Forces and the American Expeditionary Forces-Siberia. Unfortunately, there was no specific or long-term objective in Russia. Without a clear mission or tangible achievements, the expeditions eventually faded into the background.