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Atlas of Russia’s Intact Forest Landscapes
How to use the Atlas
The Atlas has two map sections
The Main Section shows the location of Russia's intact forest landscapes. The Thematic Section shows their tree species composition in two different ways. A legend is placed at the beginning of each set of maps.
If you are looking for an area near a town or village
Go to the Index of settlement names. The Cyrillic name is also given along with the map page number and coordinates (latitude and longitude) where it can be found. Capitals of regions and districts (raiony) are listed along with many other settlements, but only if located in the vicinity of intact forest landscapes. The reader should not expect to see a city like Moscow listed. Villages that are insufficiently known or very small are not listed and appear on the map only as nameless dots.
If you are looking for an administrative region
Go to the Index of administrative regions on page 183. The numbers refer to the map on the inside back cover. Having found the region on this map, the reader will know which index map to use to search further.
If you are looking for the big picture
Go to the overview map. This map shows all of Russia's Intact Forest Landscapes, along with the borders and Roman numerals of the five index maps.
If you are looking for a certain part of Russia
Find the appropriate index map. These show the borders of the detailed maps for different parts of the country.
European Russia - westwards of the Ural Mountains
Western Siberia - eastwards of the Ural Mountains up to the Enisey River
Eastern Siberia - eastwards of the Enisey River up to the Lake Baikal,
including all regions surrounding the lake
The Russian Far East - the Pacific coast of Russia
and westwards up to the vicinity of the Lake Baikal
The Kamchatka Peninsula and the Kuril Islands
Each detailed map has an ID number that consists of two letters (e.g., "ES" for the Eastern Siberia index map) and a page number within that index map - Arabic numerals for the finer scale maps (1:1.5 million) and letters for other maps (1:3 million). The ID numbers of neighboring maps are given on each detailed map.
If you are interested in the tree species composition of the remaining Intact Forest Landscapes
The Thematic Map Section has two series of maps, each with its own legend. The first one (pageÿ139) shows the tree species composition of the intact forest landscapes according to the Forests of the USSR map of 1990. This classification derives from a map of the Russian Forest Service, and is not an original work of Global Forest Watch. The second one (page 147) shows an attempt by Global Forest Watch to classify the composition of apparent areas of closed forest within the intact forest landscapes of Siberia and the Russian Far East.
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