benpark Posted July 19, 2002 Share Posted July 19, 2002 Great source for maps of the Ukraine and South West USSR. Time to start thinking about those custom maps... http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/soviet_maps.html Thanks to KWP at the MGO Atomic Games forum for this gem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted July 19, 2002 Share Posted July 19, 2002 GAHHHH anyone speak Russian? That's a great site, thanks for the link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzer_Meyer Posted July 19, 2002 Share Posted July 19, 2002 Wow amazing site. This will help in making custom maps and scenarios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killmore Posted July 19, 2002 Share Posted July 19, 2002 Originally posted by Michael Dorosh: GAHHHH anyone speak Russian? That's a great site, thanks for the link.I do. Great link! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted July 19, 2002 Share Posted July 19, 2002 I don't. Still a great link though. Ta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted July 19, 2002 Share Posted July 19, 2002 Here are some other resources which may prove useful: Soviet Union country study; part of the Area Study series covering all the countries of the world and published by the U.S. Goverment Printing Office, this volume has several useful maps illustrating the distribution of major terrain types, climatic zones, drainage and the like. These volumes are common in public libraries and can probably be bought for a pittance on E-bay or similar. GEOGRAPHY OF THE U.S.S.R.; we used to own this book (Dad donated it as part of a drive to replace Samoa's typhoon destroyed library), but I recall it as being chockful of all sorts of meaty detail on how the Soviet Union was laid out in terms of soil, rocks, water features, forestation and the like. Had tons of pictures depicting various geographical and geological features, too. TM 30-548 Soviet Topographic Map Symbols; mine's dated 1958 and shows the incredible level of detail the Soviets put into their military maps. No wonder only officers were allowed to have them! Hope this helps the war effort. Regards, John Kettler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Posted July 19, 2002 Share Posted July 19, 2002 ouch! a great link! Thank you very much! Is there an easy way to translate cyrillic alphabet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John D Salt Posted July 19, 2002 Share Posted July 19, 2002 Originally posted by Michael Dorosh: GAHHHH anyone speak Russian? I can read Russian. The trouble is, my PC can't. Can anyone give me a hint as to how to get the stupid thing to show Cyrillic properly? All the best, John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Posted July 19, 2002 Share Posted July 19, 2002 This link is quite useful to translate russian into english: http://translation2.paralink.com/ It has a small keyboard console with cyrillic alphabet so you can type exactly the same word as you see it on a map. For allowing computer to show foreign languages, I think (not sure about that) you have to go to Microsoft update site (for IE by instance) and download a specific ruleset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grisha Posted July 19, 2002 Share Posted July 19, 2002 Originally posted by John D Salt: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Michael Dorosh: GAHHHH anyone speak Russian? I can read Russian. The trouble is, my PC can't. Can anyone give me a hint as to how to get the stupid thing to show Cyrillic properly? All the best, John.</font> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzer_Meyer Posted July 19, 2002 Share Posted July 19, 2002 Wow, that translation tool works great. I was looking for Cherson and ofcourse it's all in Russia so I click where it should be. It comes up with a city named "Xepcoh". So I use the cyrillic keyboard and bam, it translates it into Herson. Well that could only be Cherson. YAY! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWB Posted July 19, 2002 Share Posted July 19, 2002 Benpark, can I have your baby? Awesome site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benpark Posted July 19, 2002 Author Share Posted July 19, 2002 ...only if it has two heads and fills its diapers with cd's of CMBB... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runyan99 Posted July 21, 2002 Share Posted July 21, 2002 Bump for a great website. If only all of Russia were online. BTW - those gridsquares are 1km X 1km, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runyan99 Posted July 21, 2002 Share Posted July 21, 2002 Originally posted by Runyan99: BTW - those gridsquares are 1km X 1km, right?I'll answer my own question. They actually look like 2km X 2km grid squares. I swear. If you do not read cyrillic, you can just about go blind looking at maps like these, trying to find some village south west of Evel-Sheich, or some such place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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