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The Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences with the assistance of the Russian Geographical Society begun with the compilation of the great three-volume Atlas of Russian geographical explorations and discoveries of the Earth. The first volume is devoted to the Russian geographical explorations and discoveries before 1845, the year of the establishment of the Russian Geographical Society. The expeditions of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, that have contributed significantly to the exploration, description, and mapping of Russia, as well as the circumnavigations of Russian sailors and their discoveries in the World ocean are emphasized in the first volume. The compilation of the Atlas is carried out simultaneously with the creation of a virtual globe representing animated routes of Russian explorers and navigators. The Atlas is provided with many old maps and drawings of artists who participated in expeditions
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Komedchikov, N.N., Kotlyakov, V.M., Khropov, A.G., Medvedev, A.A., Zinchuk, L.N. (2011). The Atlas and the Globe of Russian Geographical Explorations and Discoveries of the Earth: Concepts and Contents. In: Ruas, A. (eds) Advances in Cartography and GIScience. Volume 2. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography(), vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19214-2_12
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