Forced-Labor Camps (Gulags and individual local camps) in the Soviet Union (1951)
“A lot of my Ancestors died in those. They were farmers in an German enclave, an autonomous German town for German settlers, in Eastern Russia. They settled there before the first World War”–Satan_Stoned
Soviet map of the Baikal, Transbaikal Region (1967)
“Irkutsk is a city with a lot of historical architecture, I think it can be one of the interesting city for tourism, on the railway between Krasnoyarsk and Vladivostok. But, like all East Siberian cities, it’s kinda poor and depressed.
Vladivostok is a beautiful sea city. In Khabarovsk, i got robbed, so I do not like the city :) Ulan-Ude, a very strange city. This is the Buddhist capital of Russia, with many Buddhist temples, such as the Ivolginsky datsan. But I do not like the city itself I wasn’t on Krasnoyarsk, and can’t say anything about it. And Novosibirsk, largest city of Siberia, must be visited i guess.
And Chita, awful city, i even recommend to don’t getting off the train. City has one of highest crime rate in Russia for years, and very bad reputation”–Vaval
1739 map of Russia - by Johann Homann
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1739 map of Russia - by Joh Matthiae Hassie
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Russia compared to the contiguous United States
“surface area wise russia is larger than pluto”–VarysIsAMermaid69
“A common follow-up joke in Russia is, “they’re also similar infrastructure-wise”–SubconsciousEgotism
“also…Pluto has warmer winters than Siberia”–Kamohoaliii
1665 map of Staten Island (now Vaygach Island), below Nova Zembla - by Joan Blaeu
“Best part of this map is those two unfortunate guys (Nenets?) getting eaten by a bear over on the mainland, which is labelled as New Holland! :)“–KenFyr
Ethnic Map of the USSR
“Good old soviets, politically calling the romanian ethnics and language in SSR Moldova, “moldavian” people and language cause they wanted to denationalize and russify them easier”–vladgrinch
Percentage of Mordvins in the Russian Volga-Urals region (2010 census)
“Finno Ugric people’s group”–VarysIsAMermaid69
Jewish % of the population for each Soviet republic in 1989
“The Jews in Uzbekistan are called Bukharan Jews and most left for Israel or the US after the USSR fell apart”–datil_pepper
Napoleonic Europe - 1812 - Invasion of Russia
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“Never really thought about how far away Moscow was from everything else. That’s one hell of a March”–LibetPugnare
Soviet map of the RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic), North-East (1967)
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Soviet map of Moscow and Leningrad (1967)
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Soviet map of the U.S.S.R. (1967)
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“Basically there’s the steppe in the south, tundra in the north and a thick forest belt in between”–PeaceDenver
“Russia was 42.5% Russian Orthodox as a whole in that survey; the next largest religion was Islam, at about 8.5%”–abu_doubleu
