MAPS OF HISTORY · STALIN’S SOVIET UNION · MAPS BY YEAR · May 1944The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953 · THE MAP IN MAY 1944
Map of the Soviet Union in May 1944
Chechens, Ingush and Crimean Tatars deported · Stalin era
The Soviet Union in May 1944: Chechens, Ingush and Crimean Tatars deported. Since December 1943, 2 territories changed status on this map: Chechnya and Ingushetia (Chechen-Ingush ASSR) and Crimea (Crimean ASSR of the RSFSR).
MAY 1944 · 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 May 1944, the closest acquired campaign sheet is dated 15 June 1944, before Operation Bagration. The source date is retained.
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Layer records and reconstruction methods
What changes on the map Chechnya and Ingushetia (Chechen-Ingush ASSR) The Soviet Union → Deported homelands (memorial) Crimea (Crimean ASSR of the RSFSR) Under German occupation → Deported homelands (memorial)
On the ground German forces still occupied its westernmost regions Romania held southern Bessarabia until August 1944 The chapters of this moment
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