The following is copied from the Indiana University website:
“The bulk of Indiana University’s Russian Military Topographic Map Collection is made up of the Soviet Red Army topographic maps, which were produced for defense and economic planning. This collection came to Indiana University from the duplicate map room of the Library of Congress Map Collection in the early 1990s. These maps cover not only parts of Russia and Eastern Europe, but extend as far north as Scandinavia, as far west as Germany and the Netherlands, and as far south as Iran.
“An interactive index map of the collection is located here: https://iu.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=098c42997ca441029b69f0597ff92ea6
“For more information, visit the Cyrillic Maps Collection.”
There are very few maps of Central Asia, but coverage of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, the Baltics, Poland, and eastern Germany is pretty good. The maps of former Soviet states are uncopyrighted, but odds are good that coverage outside the USSR was taken in violation of local copyrights and so may not be used in OSM.
Discussion
Comment from SK53 on 25 декабрь 2019 сәгать 23:10
There are quite a number of articles from Sheetlines, the journal of the Charles Close Society (Ordnance Survey fan club). available on-line about Soviet military maps of Great Britain. All worth a read.
The Ordnance Survey have no doubts that their copyrights were violated, although I cant find the official statement off hand. On the other hand the Soviet maps include features which were excluded on national security grounds from OS Maps (Aldermaston, Fylingdales, Menwith Hill etc).
John Davies, who wrote a book about them, has a useful website called Soviet Maps.
10 years ago many more were online. I remember downloading one for the area S of the Matterhorn, not realising I already had coverage with my collection of Swiss Topo maps.
Comment from apm-wa on 31 декабрь 2019 сәгать 18:20
I just finished reading “The Red Atlas”, which devotes a few paragraphs to the Ordnance Survey assertion of copyright violations in Soviet military maps and the OS’ threats of lawsuits against anyone using them to generate their own maps.
Comment from SK53 on 31 декабрь 2019 сәгать 18:54
Reminds me that I never bought a copy.