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Jul 18, 2015 · Jul 18, 2015 7:00 AM. The Soviet Military's Eerily Detailed Guide to San Diego. The Soviets didn't stop at just making some of the most accurate and detailed maps of the day. Kent Lee /...
Coordinates: 36°18′15″N 121°53′18″W. Aerial view of the Point Sur Lightstation with the Naval Facility Point Sur in the background in 1969. Naval Facility Point Sur was one of 30 secret sites worldwide that were built during the Cold War to detect Soviet submarines.
Aug 27, 2017 · A detailed 1980 Soviet-era map of the Bay Area. Only cities on Soviet nuclear target lists would have such detailed maps made, according to East View Geospatial.
Etymology. The present name of Fort Ross appears first on a French chart published in 1842 by Eugène Duflot de Mofras, who visited California in 1840. The name of the fort is said to derive from the Russian word rus or ros, the same root as the word "Russia" (Pоссия, Rossiya) (Fort Ross (Russian: Форт-Росс, Kashaya mé·ṭiʔni), originally Fortress Ross (pre-reformed Russian ...
Apr 3, 2024 · Soviet military topographic map sets. Soviet Military Topographic Map Sets. The following table provides links to scanned index maps where available and identifies which university holds what map sets within our California community.
Soviet Military Mapping of the Cold War Era. In this exclusive guest post, map historian John Davies introduces one of the most enigmatic of 20th century map genres. 'The story of Soviet military mapping is the story of a massive secret project, spanning the fifty years of the Cold War period – from the 1940s to the 1990s – and involving ...
Oct 1, 2018 · Situated on 640 acres of public land located about 50 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border in Imperial County, California, Slab City sits on the site of Camp Dunlap, a former U.S. Marine Corps ...
