Introduction During the Soviet era...

Introduction

During the Soviet era, alone a few official historical overviews of the State Geodetic Service were published to commemorate the anniversaries of the agency; and the later they were produc the les objective they were. With time, certain figures simply disappeared from the histories, and the parts of others were reduced as many historical facts became politically unpalatable. Nevertheless, a certain quantity of of those documents, together with genuine archival materials, were available for an outline of the State Cartographic Service's increase The most thorough book of this kind was 50 Years of Soviet land-surveying and Cartography (50 let sovetskoi 1967). ...