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Mapping post-Cold War military sites in Eastern Europe, 1955-2010: Sources
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Subject:        Mapping post-Cold War military sites in Eastern Europe,
1955-2010: Sources
Date:   Wed, 3 Mar 2010 17:32:15 -0700
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From: Chris Suri [[log in to unmask]]
Date sent: 27 Feb 2010
Forwarded by: Dmitrii Sidorov [[log in to unmask]]

Mapping post-Cold War military sites in Eastern Europe, 1955-2010: Sources

I am an MA student in early stages of designing my thesis project and need help with identifying available cartographic data sources on military land use in Eastern Europe in the end of the Cold War and now, two decades later.  I plan to apply GIS (geographic information systems, or computer-assisted cartography) and need to collect data that would allow me to catalog, map, and study former Soviet military bases as of 1991 and 2010.

More specifically, I need to collect, for Hungary as well as for the other former Warsaw Pact countries (Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland, Romania), the following:

  A. all names and/or aliases and/or installation identifiers (such as numbers) of the Soviet military bases, before 1991 and now;

  B. specific general-scale locations of sites in respective countries (e.g., address, geographic coordinates, basic maps) before 1991 and now;

  C. detailed large-scale visual representations of these sites (such as topographic maps, aerial photography, remotely-sensed imagery and all other sources that allow analysis of changing land use patterns), before 1991 and now;

  D. any other sources revealing the contemporary land use status of these sites (e.g., abandoned, in-use, re-used etc.)

In summary, I hope to find institutions, agencies, universities, NGOs and other organizations (in Eastern Europe, the European Union, Russia, and the United States) that might have collected such information and/or hold it currently.

In general, are there any studies of the former Cold War Eastern Europe from the military cartographic land-use perspective(s)?

Any leads would be greatly appreciated!

Chris Suri
MA student in Geography
California State University, Long Beach
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