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Library of Congress

Loc: Global Gateway: Meeting of Frontiers

For Students 9th - 10th
From cossacks to cowboys, this Library of Congress special online collection looks at American westward exploration and expansion, and Russia's eastward reach into and conquest of Siberia. Includes historical information and timelines,...
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Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection: Historical Maps of Russia

For Students 9th - 10th
This outstanding collection of historical maps contains a wide variety of maps from various parts of the Soviet Union as well as the former Soviet Republics, and from different parts of history. Each map is accompanied by a brief...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Russia, 1914

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1914 of European Russia at the time. The map shows province boundaries, major cities, towns, and ports, railroads, lakes, rivers, and terrain. An inset map details the area around St. Petersburg on the Gulf of Finland. A...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Russia, 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1920 of western Russia showing the political divisions within the country at the time. The map is color-coded to show the boundaries of European Russia, including the territories of Finland, the Baltic Provinces, Poland, White...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Nova Zembla, 1903

For Students 9th - 10th
A sketch map from 1903 of the Russian islands of Nova Zembla (Novaya Zemlya) in the Arctic Ocean. Nova Zembla is an archipelago separated from the continent by the Kara Strait, with the two main islands, the northern Barents Land...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Plan of Odessa, 1903

For Students 9th - 10th
A city plan of Odessa, Ukraine, from 1903 showing the shoreline of the Black Sea, the major thoroughfares, railroads and railroad stations, the harbors on Odessa Bay, churches, hospitals, military installations, cemeteries, the botanical...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Western Russia, 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1920 of the western portion of Russia from St. Petersburg on the Gulf of Finland to the Crimean Peninsula on the Black Sea, and east to Moscow. The map shows the political boundaries within Russia at the time, major cities and...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Plan of Irkutsk, 1903

For Students 9th - 10th
A city plan of Irkutsk, Russia, from 1903, showing the Angara River, the major thoroughfares, bridges, town buildings, and historic sites. The plan is number-keyed to show the locations of important buildings of the city, including...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Kamchatka Peninsula, 1903

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1903 of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East. The map shows cities, towns and ports, terrain, rivers, coastal features, and surrounding seas of the peninsula.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Mouths of the Volga, 1919

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1919 of the Volga River delta on the Caspian Sea, showing the major distributaries, including the Achtuba River, the city of Astrakhan and neighboring towns, and the mouths of the delta network into the Caspian Sea, including...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Russian Central Asia, 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1920 of the Central Asian territories of Russia at the time, including the provinces of Sir Daria, Khiva, Turkomans (Trans Caspian), Bokhara, Samarkand, Ferghana, and portions of Turgai, Uralsk, Semipalatinsk, Akmolinsk, and...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Plan of Nijni Novgorod, 1903

For Students 9th - 10th
A plan of the Russian city of Nijni-Novgorod (Nizhny-Novgorod, earlier Gorky) from 1903, showing streets, rivers, railways and station, wharfs, and landmarks. On this map, the bridge across the Oka River is shown as a bridge of boats, or...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Russian Campaign of Napoleon, 1812

For Students 9th - 10th
The march of Napoleon to and from Moscow in 1812.
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Etc: Maps Etc: Sebastopol and Western Crimea, 1919

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1919 of the area around Sebastopol (Sevastopol) on the western shore of the Crimean Peninsula in the Black Sea. The map shows the railway, forts, terrain and coastal features, and the neighboring cities of Balaklava, Karani,...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Napoleon's Invasion of Russia, 1812

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Western Russia at the time of Napoleon's invasion in 1812. The map shows the borders of Russia, Prussia, and the Duchy of Warsaw at the time, the city of Kovno where Napoleon crossed the River Niemen on June 24, 1812, the...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Russia in Europe and Caucasia, 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of European Russia and the Caucasia at the end of World War I, showing province boundaries at the time, and the conjectural boundaries of the new states at the time the map was made given in red outline. These new states include...
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Etc: Russian Territorial Expansion , 1725 1795

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of the European Russia showing the territorial expansion between the death of Peter the Great (1725) to prior to the end of the reign of Catherine II (Catherine the Great) in 1796. The map is color-coded to show the Russian...
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Etc: Maps Etc: The Murman Coast and Archangel, 1918

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1920 of the Murman (Murmansk) Coast and Archangel (Arkhangelsk) during World War I. The map covers the area from the Kola Peninsula on the Arctic Ocean south to Petrograd (St. Petersburg), Yaroslavl, and Viatka. The map shows...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Far East Russia Around Vladivostok, 1912

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1912 of the area around the Russian port of Vladivostok on the southern tip of the Muravyov-Amursky Peninsula, including the eastern portion of Outer Manchuria and Lake Khanka. The map shows the route of the Trans-Siberian...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Sketch Map of the Russian Campaign, 1812

For Students 9th - 10th
A sketch map of Western Russia at the time of Napoleon's invasion in 1812. "The disastrous campaign which opened in June, 1812, was conducted on so vast a scale that a brief sketch can provide only the slightest conception of the...