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1992 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 1055-1070
Author(s):  
S M Ross ◽  
M K Heiman ◽  
S L Cutter ◽  
F W Carter ◽  
P Dicken ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Automobile Industry ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Central City ◽  
Expansion Method ◽  
Spatial Data Analysis ◽  
Rural Change ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Life Saving ◽  
Alternative Fuel Vehicle

Updating Topographic Maps at Scale 1:250000 for Libyan Territory Using Quantum GIS (QGIS) and Open Geospatial Data: Libya Topo-Project

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-34
Author(s):  
Salah Hamad
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Geospatial Data ◽  
Topographic Maps ◽  
Landsat 8 ◽  
Geological Maps ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Topographical Map ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Srtm Data

From the beginning of the twentieth century, topographic maps for the Libyan state carried out by various compilers, where the first mapping was carried out by the Italian Military Geographical Institute, the Soviet Union Military, and the U.S. Army, followed by mapping carried out by the Libyan state from the 1950s to the 2000s. Most of these maps have not been digitized and updated using the techniques of geographic information systems and remote sensing. This paper discusses on the objectives, methodology and results of the Libya Topography Project, “Libya Topo” for updating the previously compiled topographical map at scale, 1:250000. Open spatial data from different platforms (OSM, Logistics Cluster, Landsat 8 satellite imagery, and SRTM data, etc.). Also, POIs extracted from previously compiled topographic and geological maps. Spatial database for each UTM zone created to store the features and raster. As for the cartographic style, the map layout adopted is the style of the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency maps. The results of the project are an update of 121 topographical map sheets using Quantum (GIS), those will be freely available for the interested users on request (e.g., environmentalists, academics, and university students, etc.).

SOVIET TANK INDUSTRY OF PERIOD OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR: TECHNICAL-TECHNOLOGICAL LIMITATIONS OF ACTIVITY AND FIGHTING FOR THEIR OVERCOMING

2018 ◽  
pp. 298-310
Author(s):  
Vasiliy V. Zapary
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Automobile Industry ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Machine Building ◽  
Performance Technology ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
The Military

Introduction. The paper considers the effect of key issues of the development of the military industry of the USSR in the pre-war and military period, which had a determining effect on the quality of tanks being created in the country. The main trends in the development of tank building in the context of industrial modernization in the 1930s-1940s are revealed. Materials and Methods. The work was carried out on the basis of a wide range of sources, mostly of a monographic nature, reflecting modern historiographic approaches to the topic under study. As the main methodological treatment is the modernization theory in combination with the system approach. Results. The author argues that the result of the accelerated modernization of the Soviet Union in the 1930s became the creation of a qualitatively heterogeneous industrial potential. Implementation of high-performance technologies of the flow-conveyor production of the “Fordist” type in the tractor building and automobile industry made it possible to use labor of low-skilled labor everywhere. The complex of these restrictions had a decisive influence on the choice of approaches to the design and production of tanks by Soviet constructors and production managers. Discussion. The work provides a brief retrospective review of the main trends in the development of the Soviet tank industry in the pre-war period, in the context of the overall social and technological modernization of the country. The significance of the factor of international cooperation and trade ties with the capitalist countries in the formation of the scientific and technical potential of the tank-building industry in the pre-war period is revealed. The factors of uneven development and qualitative potential of the Soviet machine building, created during the first five-year plans, are revealed. Conclusions. Before the Great Patriotic War, the secular tank industry could not fully solve the problem of the quality of its products. The outbreak of the war led to the evacuation, a partial loss of valuable stuff and equipment. In the eastern regions of the USSR, the military-political leadership of the country managed to recreate the tank industry through rigid mobilization methods of managing and concentrating evacuated resources. The lack of specialists forced the wide use of high-performance technology of flow-conveyor assembly in combination with the maximum simplification of the design of tanks. But this dramatically worsened their combat potential. The limited combat capabilities of such tanks had to be compensated for by their massive use.

Larger Than Life: Soviet Monumental Sculpture in the Stalin Period

Experiment ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-239
Author(s):  
Marie Turbow Lampard
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Central City ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Monumental Sculpture ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article considers the proliferation of monuments in the Soviet Union from Lenin’s Plan for Monumental Propaganda in 1918 until Stalin’s death. It examines the artistic climate in which monuments were commissioned and made and explores the relationship between the central city and the provinces in the creation of a Soviet monumental style.

Forging Global Fordism

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan J. Link
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Automobile Industry ◽  
Mass Production ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Liberal Internationalism ◽  
Total War ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
American Hegemony

As the United States rose to ascendancy in the first decades of the twentieth century, observers abroad associated American economic power most directly with its burgeoning automobile industry. In the 1930s, in a bid to emulate and challenge America, engineers from across the world flocked to Detroit. Chief among them were Nazi and Soviet specialists who sought to study, copy, and sometimes steal the techniques of American automotive mass production, or Fordism. This book traces how Germany and the Soviet Union embraced Fordism amid widespread economic crisis and ideological turmoil. The book recovers the crucial role of activist states in global industrial transformations and reconceives the global thirties as an era of intense competitive development, providing a new genealogy of the postwar industrial order. The book uncovers the forgotten origins of Fordism in Midwestern populism, and shows how Henry Ford's antiliberal vision of society appealed to both the Soviet and Nazi regimes. It explores how they positioned themselves as America's antagonists in reaction to growing American hegemony and seismic shifts in the global economy during the interwar years, and shows how Detroit visitors helped spread versions of Fordism abroad and mobilize them in total war. The book challenges the notion that global mass production was a product of post-World War II liberal internationalism, demonstrating how it first began in the global thirties, and how the spread of Fordism had a distinctly illiberal trajectory.

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