The issue of the effectiveness of large cities as forms of settlement remains a lively topic of debate in the USSR. Categorizing the issue into three aspects (economic, ecological and social) the A. reviews the arguments pro and con, with a tone
Recent developments in large-scale water transfers in the USSR
Current status and future plans for large-scale water transfers in the USSR (European diversion projects and Siberian diversion projects)| account given by G. V. Voropaev, director of the Insitute of water problems in Moscow.
Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Project in Europe and the former USSR
Review of Man-and-the-Biosphere programme in 21 areas of Austria, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, and the former USSR. Only some of the objectives defined in 1973 were realized primarily because of institutional factors. - (DWG)
Water diversion proposals for the European USSR: status and trends
An American specialist on water diversion in the Soviet Union reviews the situation with respect to the proposed transfer projects within the European USSR, which are expected to receive priority over the proposed transfer of water from Western
The dynamics of commuting in the USSR and some approaches to forecasting
The overall magnitude of commuting for various purposes in prerevolutionary Russia and in the USSR is traced historically and dramatic increases in the number of commuters are identified. Some general correlations are derived between numbers
Map-making to 1900: an historical glossary of cartographic innovations and their diffusion. Preliminary study, presented on the occasion of the Eight International Conference on Cartography, Moscow, USSR, 3-10 August 1976