MAPS OF HISTORY · STALIN’S SOVIET UNION · MAPS BY YEAR · December 1943The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953 · THE MAP IN DEC 1943
Map of the Soviet Union in December 1943
The occupation driven back; Kalmyks and Karachays deported · Stalin era
The Soviet Union in December 1943: The occupation driven back; Kalmyks and Karachays deported. Since November 1942, 4 territories changed status on this map: including The Ukrainian SSR, The North Caucasus grain belt (Kuban, Don, Stavropol), Kalmykia (Kalmyk ASSR) and 1 more.
DEC 1943 · THE SOVIET UNION UNDER STALIN, 1924–1953 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1 historical political boundaries · Natural Earth v5.1.2 country geography · Natural Earth full administrative reference geometry · Published projection for the Soviet Union location-map family · Bukharan PSR in the Soviet Union (1922), published vector locator · Volga German ASSR, 20 July 1930: published locator map · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 — dated political boundaries · US War Department — Atlas of the World Battle Fronts (1945) · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 — dated political boundaries
Source details Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0 · Dated source selection, component unions, disjoint display masks and source-relative border differences. Natural Earth contributors. Public domain Natural Earth contributors. Public domain · Complete selected units and holes; geographic references to named memorial regions, not claims of dated district perimeters. Hellerick. Mathematical projection parameters; source artwork CC BY-SA 3.0 TRAJAN 117, TarzanASG, Anonimu and Milenioscuro; underlying location-map geography by Hellerick/Natural Earth. CC BY-SA 3.0 · Identified Bukhara, Khorezm and historical Aral SVG paths independently inverse-projected; derivative geometry distributed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Fotisgrek. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Native red territorial class extracted and registered to published lake geography; derivative under CC BY-SA 4.0. Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY4.0 · Dated polity and constituent territory selections; campaign-dependent occupation overlays reconstructed separately. United States War Department, General Staff,1945. US Army official work; public domain Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY4.0 · Dated polity and constituent territory selections; campaign-dependent occupation overlays reconstructed separately. For December 1943, the closest acquired independently traced campaign sheet is dated 15 October 1943. That source date is retained, rather than presenting it as an exact December front.
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Layer records and reconstruction methods
What changes on the map The Ukrainian SSR Under German occupation → The Soviet Union The North Caucasus grain belt (Kuban, Don, Stavropol) Under German occupation → The Soviet Union Kalmykia (Kalmyk ASSR) The Soviet Union → Deported homelands (memorial) Karachay (Karachay Autonomous Region) Under German occupation → Deported homelands (memorial)
On the ground German forces still occupied its western regions Related maps
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