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Administrative Divisions of the Soviet Arctic and Sub-Arctic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Brian Roberts
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The following notes and accompanying map have resulted from an attempt to devise a regional classification for the Institute's increasing collection of reports, maps and other documentary material dealing with northern Russia. Changes in the position and function of administrative boundaries present a special cartographic problem when they are of such bewildering frequency, for the dynamism inherent in the Soviet administrative structure since its inception in 1917 has not yet shown any signs of diminishing. While much of the available material can conveniently be classified under the headings of the major administrative regions existing at any particular date, the writer must admit that he is still not much nearer to a satisfactory solution of the original problem which prompted the inquiry.

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Polar Record , Volume 4 , Issue 31 , January 1946 , pp. 320 - 323
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1946

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References

1 Morrison, John A., “The Evolution of the Territorial-Administrative Structure of the U.S.S.R.”, American Quarterly on the Soviet Union, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1938, pp. 25–46.Google Scholar

2 Shabad, Theodore, “Political-Administrative Divisions of the U.S.S.R., 1945”, Geographical Review, Vol. 36, No. 2, 1946, pp. 301–311CrossRefGoogle Scholar. This article, with its accompanying map, was published after the present map had been completed. Whereas the boundaries shown for Arctic and sub-Arctic administrative units in Shabad's map are broadly similar to those in the accompanying map, the nomenclature adopted is in many cases different.