User:Firespeaker/1928 USSR Atlas

I'm working on scanning a 1927/1928 atlas of the Soviet Union. It probably should become a part of wikisource eventually, and hopefully the maps can be put to use on the wikipedia pages of political regions of the period. This page is here as a starting point for everything related to getting this atlas scanned, uploaded, converted, indexed, etc.

Bibliographic information

A. Енукидзе, editor (1928) Атлас Союза Советских Социалистических Республик, Москва: Издание ЦИК СССР

Need to pull full list of editors from p. II.

General information

Numbered pages: 108 (starting with p. 1)
Width: approximately 35.5cm (14in)
Height: approximately 27.7cm (11in)
Depth: 1.5cm (5/8in)
Fold-out maps: 5
Single-page maps: 32
Wax-paper overlays:

Contribution of others

There are several ways in which others can contribute to this effort.

Editing maps
- Combining maps scanned in multiple passes: Commons:Graphic_Lab/Map_workshop#Soviet_Atlas_scans_need_combining
Helping incorporate maps into appropriate pages on wikipedia
- wikipedia:User_talk:Otebig#Integrating_Атлас_data_and_maps_appropriately_into_relevant_pages
Transcribing and translating text (on separate pages; see status links for pages which have been started)
1. An OCR dump of all non-map pages
2. Proof-reading/editing of all OCRed pages
3. Translation of all proofed pages

What makes this source unique

Being published only 10 years after the USSR was established, this is probably one of the earliest Atlases of the country. It seems to have been published with a wider audience in mind, with a title page in various European languages. The borders of many areas—including not just administrative regions throughout the USSR, but also entire autonomous republics (especially in Central Asia)—were in a state of flux; as such, the borders in this Atlas (including the wax-paper overlays meant to update various maps with changes made between when they were drawn and when the Atlas was published) often don't look anything like the borders as they were set at the end of the Soviet Union and have continued on to modern times. Since the boundaries were often ideologically- (sometimes ethnically-, less-so economically-) motivated, this offers interesting insight into the mindset of the administration that was making these changes.