Russifying Crimea
This digitally annotated version of the map Krym, fizicheskaia-uchebnaia karta (1967) is part of my final project, in which I analyze the role that Soviet tourist maps from the 1960s played in the Russification of Crimean space. I extracted five elements from the map that I think are particularly relevant to this topic: the emphasis on World War Two memorial sites, the inclusion of several pictorial categories that refer to other wars or events of historical importance, the relative absence of references to Crimean Tatar cultural heritage, the description of the Chersones archaeological site and the Vladimir Cathedral, and the image of Crimea as the Soviet Union’s “pleasure periphery”.