Submission – Historical Map: Bus Network of Perm, Russia, 1967
There’s a child-like quality to this clearly hand-drawn and lettered map (see the crude trees in the parks), but it kind of makes me love it more.
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Submission – Historical Maps: Trolleybus and Tram Diagrams of Kaliningrad, USSR, 1990
Sent my way by Kyril Negoda are these two rather delightful little diagrams of trolleybus and tram services in Kaliningrad in 1990. This was just before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, so Kaliningrad Oblast was still physically connected to the rest of the USSR, rather than being an exclave like it is today. Stylistically, the diagrams are very similar and have a pleasant, slightly childlike feeling to them. This is aided by […]
Historical Maps: Moscow Metro Book, 1978
An amazing book describing the lines and stations of the Moscow Metro in detail, complete with lovely red and white system maps as well as layout diagrams of all the stations. It certainly makes me wish I could read Russian! Simply beautiful.
Historical Map: Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Metro, Russia, 1973
A curvaceous, minimalist diagram. Notably mainly for the strangely muted colour scheme (yellow, brown and purple?) and the interesting interchange station symbols, which make things very clear by showing two arrows pointing in opposite directions. Visually, I like the way that the diagram makes use of overprinting where the route lines overlap. Update: I’ve since found out that this map is a small inset on a much larger geographical map of bus services in Leningrad, […]
Submission – Historical Map: Bus and Trolley-bus Routes in Vilnius, Lithuania, 1968
Submitted by creatures-alive. A striking transit network map from Soviet Vilnius in the late 1960s. The stark, angular route lines are softened a bit by the wide lazy curves of the city’s rivers, but this is still pretty severe, minimalist, almost abstract design. Also of note is the map’s title and legend, set in five different languages – Lithuanian, Russian, Polish, German and English. Source: Vilniaus Katalogas website