The collapse of the Soviet Union has seen the emergence of its unprecedentedly comprehensive global military mapping programme and the commercial availability of a vast number of detailed topographic maps and city plans at several scales. Many libraries and archives around the world are discovering and acquiring these maps and plans, developing vast potential to provide researchers in a variety of fields with a wealth of previously inaccessible topographic data. However, significant differences exist in the cataloguing, classification, translation and transliteration between and within the major collections, potentially limiting access to this important new resource. This paper presents a survey of how Soviet military city plans are described in the catalogues of forty libraries and highlights these inconsistencies. It proposes a method for their description that is based on an identification of key sheet characteristics, with a view to facilitating the cataloguing of new acquisitions and improving access to these important sources for current and future users.

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改善用户对苏联军事制图的访问：全球图书馆和馆藏中的当前问题

苏联的瓦解见证了其空前全面的全球军事制图计划的出现，以及各种规模的大量详细地形图和城市规划的商业可得性。世界各地的许多图书馆和档案馆正在发现和获取这些地图和计划，从而为为各个领域的研究人员提供了大量以前无法访问的地形数据提供了巨大的潜力。但是，在主要馆藏之间以及在主要馆藏之间的编目，分类，翻译和音译方面存在重大差异，可能会限制对这一重要新资源的获取。本文介绍了如何在40个图书馆的目录中描述苏联军事城市规划，并着重说明了这些不一致之处。