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This map, produced after the first World War, makes a powerful argument in contemporary debates over Ukrainian statehood. Rudnytsky was a geographer and professor with deep roots in the Ukrainian national movement. He received much of his education…

This map depicts the distribution of Strontium-90 in the area contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster as of December 1989. It was published along with the proceedings of the International Chernobyl Project, a study and conference organized by the…

This map depicts the distribution of Cesium-137 in the area contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster as of December 1989. It was published along with the proceedings of the International Chernobyl Project, a study and conference organized by the…

This map shows the spread of Strontium-90 contamination in the area surrounding Kyiv in December 1990. It is one of a set of four Soviet-produced maps showing strontium contamination from the same point in time. They were produced by the State…

This map shows the spread of Strontium-90 contamination in the area west and south of Kyiv in December 1990. It is one of a set of four Soviet-produced maps showing strontium contamination from the same point in time. They were produced by the State…

This map shows the spread of Strontium-90 contamination in the area surrounding Minsk, in Belarus, in December 1990. It is one of a set of four Soviet-produced maps showing strontium contamination from the same point in time. They were produced by…

This map shows the spread of Strontium-90 contamination in the area of eastern Belarus and western Russia surrounding Gomel' in December 1990. It is one of a set of four Soviet-produced maps showing strontium contamination from the same point in…

This map portrays soil contamination on the territory of Ukraine with cesium-137, a radioactive isotope, as of April 2011. Cesium-137 has a half-life of approximately 30 years (which means that 30 years after its release, half of it will have…

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…