A Review of Some Russian Map Projections

It is not remarkable that during the long period of cultural isolation, which has continued for nearly 45 years, some new ideas have originated from the work of Russian geodesists and cartographers. During this period a number of new projections have been proposed and some extremely interesting ideas have been developed about modifications to certain well known graticules. There are even several projections which were first described in Russia during the first decade of this century which have, apparently, never been mentioned in the western literature on the subject. The present paper is intended to review the whole scope of the work which may be unfamiliar to western readers.