Skhema plotnosti zagri︠a︡znenii︠a︡ t︠s︡eziem-137 s zapasom [bolʹshe] 1 ki/km² territorii evropeĭskoĭ chasti Rossii : po sostoi︠a︡nii︠u︡ na 30 dekabri︠a︡ 1991 g.

Skhema plotnosti zagri︠a︡znenii︠a︡ t︠s︡eziem-137 s zapasom [bolʹshe] 1 ki/km² territorii evropeĭskoĭ chasti Rossii : po sostoi︠a︡nii︠u︡ na 30 dekabri︠a︡ 1991 g.

The map shown here, produced by Yurii Izrael', who was also in charge of producing Soviet contamination maps, was produced a year after the larger Soviet maps in this exhibit. However, it shows a subtle but unmistakeable political shift for the immediate post-Soviet period: rather than a map of the Soviet Union, this is a contamination map of Russia. In the post-Soviet period, the Soviet successor states were faced with the task of managing the long-term effects of environmental disasters that were arguably the fault of governments that no longer existed.

Izrael', Iu.

GUGK USSR

1992