Slavic Reference Sources: Geographic Areas

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Slavic Reference Sources

Geographic Reference Books

Maintained by the United States Board of Geographic Names. For authority work we prefer the BGN form for foreign geographic names (with some exceptions for generally accepted English names like “Moscow”). However, the BGN does not use the same transliteration system as ALA-LC, so the BGN form must be put into ALA-LC transliteration (the original BGN transliteration becomes a cross-reference). Authority record example:

151 I︠A︡roslavlʹ ...

451 Yaroslavlʹ ...

Russia/Soviet Union/Russia (Federation)

Atlas, Russia and the post Soviet republics (1993) Political and physical maps of the republics of the former Soviet Union in English. It has separate maps of each republic, each capital city, and includes a gazeteer. On the maps, some city names are also cited in Russian.

Atlas SSSR (1988)
Geograficheskii entsiklopedicheskii slovar (1989)
Penguin historical atlas of Russia (1995)

Rossiiskaia Federatsiia: atlas (1993)

Slovar narodnykh geograficheskikh terminov (1984)
Slovar geograficheskikh nazvanii zarubezhnykh stran (1986)
Slovar geograficheskikh nazvanii SSSR (1983)

Armenia

Armenia: a historical atlas (2001)

Atlas Armianskoi sovetskoi sotsialisticheskoi respubliki (1961)

Azerbaijan

Azarbaijan SSR atlasy (1979)
Atlas Azerbaidzhanskoi sovetsloi sotsialisticheskoi respubliki (1963)

Informative cartographic reference book of Azerbaijan (2000)

Croatia

Veliki atlas Hrvatske (2002)

Czech Republic