United Arab Emirates Soviet-era GUGK map—Sheet G-40-B—Abu Dhabi & Dubai 1977
SKU: P-8-006468
Генеральный штаб. Абу-Даби [General Staff. Abu Dhabi]. Иран. Объединённые Арабские Эмираты. Оман [Iran. United Arab Emirates. Oman]
A Soviet-era Russian-language GUGK topographic map at 1:500,000 scale, covering the northern United Arab Emirates and northern Oman. At this scale the map is sufficiently detailed to show urban street patterns, individual city blocks, and isolated outlying buildings, allowing close reading of the built-up areas of Dubai and Abu Dhabi alongside surrounding desert, coastal, and mountainous terrain. Produced by the Main Administration of Geodesy and Cartography (GUGK), the sheet reflects Soviet Cold War strategic mapping priorities in the Persian Gulf. In addition to conventional topographic detail, it records oil wells and associated infrastructure, ports, airfields, road networks, as well as traditional caravan routes. A valuable historical snapshot of the Gulf region before the full scale of late-20th-century urban and infrastructural transformation, when Dubai and Abu Dhabi were still in comparatively early stages of development.
Size 56 x 67 cm | 22.0 x 26.5 inches
Date Published: Compiled 1976. Published 1977
Type: 20th century Soviet colour map
Author: USSR Geodesy & Cartography Directorate
Publication: USSR Geodesy & Cartography Directorate
Condition: Good |
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