MAPS OF HISTORY · STALIN’S SOVIET UNION · MAPS BY YEAR · September 1945The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953 · THE MAP IN SEP 1945
Map of the Soviet Union in September 1945
Victory — the new frontiers and the new satellites · Stalin era
The Soviet Union in September 1945: Victory — the new frontiers and the new satellites. Since May 1944, 33 territories changed status on this map: including The Byelorussian SSR, Estonia, Latvia and 30 more.
SEP 1945 · 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 · The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949 · Berlin’s four-power status and its termination · The rise and fall of the Berlin Wall · Cliopatria v0.2.1 historical polities · Decolonization of Asia and Africa, 1945–1960 · Natural Earth v5.1.2 country geography · Natural Earth administrative references · 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. US government historical publication. Historical facts cited; no source artwork or prose reproduced US government historical publication. Historical facts cited; no source artwork or prose reproduced US government historical publication. Historical facts cited; no source artwork or prose reproduced Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0 · Selected dated records; documented component selection, unions and shared-edge extraction. US Department of State, Office of the Historian. US government publication Natural Earth contributors. Public domain · Full source components and holes retained; documented historical unions and repairs. Natural Earth contributors. Public domain Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY4.0 · Dated polity and constituent territory selections; campaign-dependent occupation overlays reconstructed separately. German occupation sectors use the closest fully sourced 1949/1950 state perimeters, with four-power Berlin shown separately. Before state creation, they are labelled occupation zones.
proxy: 1945.7 · proxy: 1945–1990, later municipal exterior reference · proxy: Natural Earth administrative source vintage · proxy: Natural Earth v5.1.2 · proxy: post1945 · reconstruction: 1936–1937 · reconstruction: 1939/1945 · reconstruction: 1940 · reconstruction: 1940/1945 · reconstruction: 1944 settlement · reconstruction: 1945.7 · reconstruction: 1949–1952 · vector: 1890–2023 · vector: 1922 published political reference; pre-shrink Aral outline · vector: 1942–1945 · vector: 1943–1945 · vector: 1943–1946 · vector: 1944–1945 · vector: 1944–1946 · vector: 1945–1945 · vector: 1945–1949 · vector: 1945–2023 · vector: 1948–1952
Layer records and reconstruction methods
What changes on the map The Byelorussian SSR Under German occupation → The Soviet Union Estonia Under German occupation → Annexed by the USSR, 1939–45 Latvia Under German occupation → Annexed by the USSR, 1939–45 Lithuania Under German occupation → Annexed by the USSR, 1939–45 Bessarabia and the Moldavian ASSR (mod. Moldova) Under German occupation → The Soviet Union East Prussia (Kaliningrad from 1946) Nazi Germany & its allies → Annexed by the USSR, 1939–45 Transcarpathia (Carpathian Ruthenia) Nazi Germany & its allies → Annexed by the USSR, 1939–45 Tuva (Tannu Tuva People’s Republic) Satellites & communist allies → Annexed by the USSR, 1939–45 Poland Nazi Germany & its allies → Satellites & communist allies Romania Nazi Germany & its allies → Satellites & communist allies Bulgaria Nazi Germany & its allies → Satellites & communist allies Yugoslavia (Serbia) Nazi Germany & its allies → Satellites & communist allies Yugoslavia (Croatia) Nazi Germany & its allies → Satellites & communist allies Yugoslavia (Slovenia) Nazi Germany & its allies → Satellites & communist allies Yugoslavia (Bosnia) Nazi Germany & its allies → Satellites & communist allies Yugoslavia (Montenegro) Nazi Germany & its allies → Satellites & communist allies Yugoslavia (Macedonia) Nazi Germany & its allies → Satellites & communist allies Yugoslavia (Kosovo) Nazi Germany & its allies → Satellites & communist allies Albania Nazi Germany & its allies → Satellites & communist allies Korea (north) Rivals & the Western bloc → Satellites & communist allies Germany Nazi Germany & its allies → Rivals & the Western bloc Austria Nazi Germany & its allies → Other states Czechoslovakia (Czech lands) Nazi Germany & its allies → Other states Czechoslovakia (Slovakia) Nazi Germany & its allies → Other states
On the ground its western lands belonged to Poland until 1939; the USSR annexed them in November of that year Bessarabia and northern Bukovina, which the USSR annexed from Romania in June 1940 the Soviet occupation zone became the German Democratic Republic in October 1949 Related maps
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