Secret Soviet Posters Demystify Map Symbols. These posters, part of a massive military program, illustrated how to map different types of buildings, bridges, and even trees in intricate detail.

The maps are part of a collection of 4,000 Russian military maps at Indiana University. They were made between 1883 and 1947, and they were never meant to be seen by outsiders, says IU map ...

These intricate, curious maps were supposed to be destroyed. The ones that remain reveal a fascinating portrait of how the U.S.S.R. monitored the world.

South Ferry, Liberty Island, Brooklyn, and Staten Island, and Jersey City on a Soviet-era map dating back to 1982. Image via Wired With its final days almost 25 years passed (though historians ...

This 1976 map of Seattle is not the kind you would have bought at a gas station. No, this is a secret map put together by the Military Topographic Directorate of the General Staff of the Soviet ...

Spy maps of Britain compiled by the Soviet Union during the Cold War contain such a wealth of information that a digital mapping firm has bought them for use by property developers.