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Although initially Russian cartography could not glory in original work - the "Atlas Marxa" (1905), for example, is merely a translation of Debes' Neuer Handatlas - the large 'Atlas Mira' ("World Atlas", 1954, 2nd ed. 1967, 3rd 1999), with some 200,000 names, also in English translation of the last two editions as "The World Atlas", meant a very special achievement. A similar Russian project ''Bolshoi Sovietskii Atlas Mira'', intented to be the most comprehensive atlas of modern times, remained with two out of three planned volumes (1937/39) incomplete owing to wartime.

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★ Novikova, T.G. (exec. editor) a.o.: The World Atlas. 3rd ed. Federal Service of Geodesy and Cartography of Russia. Moscow, 1999. ISBN 5-85120-055-3

★ "Bolshoi Sovietskii Atlas Mira Projection", The MathWorks, accessed March 28, 2007

★ Theodore Shabad, "Atlas Mira", ''Geographical Review'', Vol. 46, No. 2 (Apr., 1956), pp. 289-291

★ Terence Armstrong, Fiziko-Geograficheskiy Atlas", ''The Geographical Journal'', Vol. 132, No. 1 (Mar., 1966), p. 157