The seventieth anniversary of sovietcartography - some achievements and tasks of restructuring

Summary

This article, based on a presentation to the All-Union Conference on Cartography in the Era of the Scientific and Technological Revolution in November 1987, contains an eminent Soviet cartographer's evaluation of the state and development of Soviet cartography and his impressions concerning the tasks which lie ahead over the era of economic restructuring and social change. Translated from: izvestiya Akademli Nauk SSSR, seriya geograflcheskaya, 1988, No. 3 , pp. 17-21 by Jay K. Mitchell, PlanEcon, Inc., Washington, DC 20005.