Russiain the Culture Smart range of pocket-sized guide books; providing detailed information on local customs, culture, etiquette & manners & ensuring that visitors are prepared for a diverse range of social environments. The series covers an extensive number of countries worldwide & are designed both for those working & living abroad, as well as for visitors who do not want to offend, either intentionally or inadvertently. Their aim is to prevent readers from making embarrassing mistakes & feel confident in unfamiliar situations, while preparing them before arrival on what to expect & how to behave. Each guide is arranged thematically, with dedicated individual chapters on land & people, values & attitudes, customs & traditions, making friends, people at home, ‘time-out’, travelling & communicating. There is also a separate chapter for business travelers, with important information on subjects such as business culture, meetings & making appointments. A Further Reading section also offers a list of recommended other history, travel literature & language titles available on the country. ...

Road Map of Russia (from Lake Baikal to Vladivostok east) published by Reise Know How. Terrain mapping, tourist information (places of interest, national parks …), sea links & index of cities included. Distances on main roads. City names are also written in Russian on the map. This detailed map of Russia is waterproof & tear resistant. ...

Russia: Urals to Lake Baikal covering south-central Russia at 1:2, 000, 000 on an indexed, waterproof & tear-resistant map with topographic & tourist information. Published by Reise Know-How as part of their highly acclaimed World Mapping Project, the map is double-sided to provide the best balance between a good scale & a convenient size sheet. The western half of the map starts well west the Urals to include Kazan, Ulyanovsk & Samara, & extends north to Surgut. In the east the map ends just beyond Irkutsk (PLEASE NOTE: Lake Baikal itself is not included) & extends north to Ust-Ilimsk & the bend of the Angara. Names of larger & selected smaller towns are given in both Cyrillic & Latin alphabets; smaller places, administrative units, geographical features & places of interest are in the Latin alphabet only. Road & rail networks are easy to see on a clear base which presents the region’s topography by altitude colouring with contours, numerous spot heights & names of mountain ranges. Swamps, marshes & seasonal lakes & rivers are also shown. Road network

Includes:: selected unsurfaced local roads & tracks, shows locations of petrol stations, gives driving distances on main & secondary routes, & indicates border crossings (including the M52 route from Novosibirsk across the Altai Mountains to Mongolia). The course of the Trans-Siberian railway line is easy to follow across the map & local airports are indicated. National parks & protected areas are marked & symbols highlight various places of interest, including locations with tourist accommodation, UNESCO World Heritage sites, museums, etc. The map has a latitude & longitude grid at intervals of 1º & an extensive index of place names, with an additional list of national parks. Map legend

Includes:: English.



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The recent tremendous changes in Russia have only enhanced the special fascination which this powerful, enigmatic country has so long held for the world at large. Russia`s history, from her beginnings as an illiterate pagan Slav community centered on Kiev to her twentieth-century superpower status, has its own unique rhythm, Appalling calamities have shaped Russia: the Tatar Yoke; the Time of Troubles; the Napoleonic invasion, two world wars separated by a great civil war; a multitude of famines & epidemics. Not least among these scourges have been leaders such as Ivan the Terrible & Joseph Stalin. A succession of governments
- Muscovite, Imperial & Soviet
- have, with the help of powerful political police organizations, dragooned a common people fatalistic, courageous, resillient & patient in suffering, yet liable to sudden explosions of collective rage. In this revised & updated edition, Ronald Hingley considers the recent astonishing developments: the first steps towards liberalization, the collapse of communist rule throughout Russia`s former satellite states, & above all the demise of Soviet communism & the disintegration of the USSR in the wake of Boris Yeltsin`s rise to power. Russia`s present troubles can be better comprehended as the latest chapter in a long & enthralling history; a history
- evoked here with the aid of over 200 illustrations
- which is now being energetically reassessed by the Russians themselves.



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Russia & Asia
- Nomadic & Oriental Traditions in Russian History in the Odyssey Guides series; aimed at travellers particularly
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Russia on a double-sided map from Jana Seta combining coverage of the whole country at 1:8, 000, 000 with more detailed mapping at 1:2, 000, 000 of its western part. Extensive index is in a separate booklet attached on the map cover. On one side is a lovely clear map at 1:8, 000, 000 with its projection providing coverage from London to the Bering Straight. The map covers not only Russia but also all the ex-Soviet Union counties, the whole of Scandinavia, Pol&, Mongolia, the Koreas & Japan, plus northern China with Beijing & much of Iran. The map extends to the North Pole, so covers all the Russian island groups within the Arctic Ocean as well as Svalbard/ Spitsbergen. Countries are presented in different colours, with their names in English. Within Russia the map shows internal administrative boundaries with names of administrative units: oblast’, republic, okrug or krai. A large number of towns are marked, with names given only in Latin alphabet. The map shows principal road & rail connections, including the whole of the Trans-Siberian route to Vladivostok & its spurs north & southwards. Local airports are indicated, including those in the north-eastern parts of Siberia. The underlying base has subtle relief shading with graphics for marshlands. Large number of tributaries of Russia’s main rivers are named. Perhaps disappointingly, there is no similar information about mountain chains & the subtle relief shading makes the Urals almost disappear! Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at intervals of 5°. The index is in a separate booklet attached to the map cover. Map legend

Includes:: English. Below the map is a colourful panel of flags of Russia administrative units, Moscow & St. Petersburg, plus the ex-Soviet Union countries. On the reverse the western part of Russia is shown in greater detail at 1:2, 000, 000 with the map extending east beyond Nizhny Novgorod & to Volgograd (Stalingrad), plus north just beyond Petrozavodsk to show most of Lake Onega. Coverage here

Includes:: all the European ex-Soviet Union countries except those in the Caucasus.* The 1:8m side of this map is also available as a wallmap



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Russia & neighbouring countries wallmap from Jana Seta covering the whole country at 1:8, 000, 000 with a colourful panel of flags of Russia administrative units, Moscow & St. Petersburg, plus the ex-Soviet Union countries. The clear map at 1:8, 000, 000 with its projection provides coverage from London to the Bering Straight. The map covers not only Russia but also all the ex-Soviet Union counties, the whole of Scandinavia, Pol&, Mongolia, the Koreas & Japan, plus northern China with Beijing & much of Iran. The map extends to the North Pole, so covers all the Russian island groups within the Arctic Ocean as well as Svalbard/ Spitsbergen. Countries are presented in different colours, with their names in English. Within Russia the map shows internal administrative boundaries with names of administrative units: oblast’, republic, okrug or krai. A large number of towns are marked, with names given only in Latin alphabet. The map shows principal road & rail connections, including the whole of the Trans-Siberian route to Vladivostok & its spurs north & southwards. Local airports are indicated, including those in the north-eastern parts of Siberia. The underlying base has subtle relief shading with graphics for marshlands. Large number of tributaries of Russia’s main rivers are named. Perhaps disappointingly, there is no similar information about mountain chains & the subtle relief shading makes the Urals almost disappear! Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at intervals of 5°. Map legend

Includes:: English. Below the map is a colourful panel of flags of Russia administrative units, Moscow & St. Petersburg, plus the ex-Soviet Union countries.* This map is also available folded.

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Geoffrey Hosking is one of the foremost historians of Russia & its people. The result of a lifetime`s knowledge, this monumental & authoritative work has been acclaimed as the definitive single-volume history of Russia, tracing its story from the settlement of Kiev through to the present day. This second edition is updated throughout, with a new chapter on the recent role of Putin & Medvedev, & their impact on Russia`s economy, politics & its citizens. ...

The British Isles with their old historic counties on a cloth-backed reproduction from the Old Folding Maps of a beautiful map published by the Stanford’s Geographic Establishment around 1859. Bright colours highlight the boundaries of the old counties as they were before the nonsensical / much needed (delete as you feel appropriate) changes in 1974. The pale background makes all the place names easy to read. In common with other maps published by Stanfords at that time, an unusually large number of small rivers are named, even the lovely Cuckmere is there. Ironically perhaps, the map provides an interesting contrast between the significant administrative changes within Great Britain & the retention of the county borders within Irel&, with just the change of the names from King’s & Queen’s to Offaly & Laois respectively – it’s the international border that has been added there. Each individual cloth-backed map is sold folded in a colourful case covered with a unique design marbled paper – no two cases are identical.PLEASE NOTE: this title is also available as a wall map in two different sizes in the “ Stanfords Classics Collection of Historical Maps”. To see the list of all the titles in this series from the Old Folding Maps please click on the series link. ...

The British Isles with their old historic counties on a cloth-backed reproduction from the Old Folding Maps of a beautiful map published by the Stanford’s Geographic Establishment around 1859. Bright colours highlight the boundaries of the old counties as they were before the nonsensical / much needed (delete as you feel appropriate) changes in 1974. The pale background makes all the place names easy to read. In common with other maps published by Stanfords at that time, an unusually large number of small rivers are named, even the lovely Cuckmere is there. Ironically perhaps, the map provides an interesting contrast between the significant administrative changes within Great Britain & the retention of the county borders within Irel&, with just the change of the names from King’s & Queen’s to Offaly & Laois respectively – it’s the international border that has been added there. Each individual cloth-backed map is sold folded in a colourful case covered with a unique design marbled paper – no two cases are identical.PLEASE NOTE: this title is also available as a wall map in two different sizes in the “ Stanfords Classics Collection of Historical Maps”. To see the list of all the titles in this series from the Old Folding Maps please click on the series link. ...