----------------------------Original message---------------------------- [This message is also being sent out on the (British) Lis-Maps list] SLYSHISH! SLYSHISH! (Or, Oyez! Oyez!) Map of the PEOPLES OF RUSSIA AND ADJACENT COUNTRIES (Or, NARODY ROSSII I SOPREDEL'NYKH STRAN) 194 peoples and 67 sub-ethnic groups are shown on this 4-sheet multi-colored map of the peoples of Russia, the other Soviet successor states, and of the contiguous states. For the first time (as they were not included in the Soviet censuses of 1937, 1939, 1959, 1970, 1979, and 1989) over 40 peoples of Russia and other former Soviet republics have been marked. Territories with an ethnically mixed population, sparse population, and with peoples in a minority on their own territory have all been depicted and differentiated by a variety of cartographic techniques. The map was compiled in 1995 by specialists, under the supervision of Professor Pavel I. Puchkov, at the Miklukho-Maklay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. At a scale of 1:4 000 000 and on 4 sheets (total size 131x211 cm), the map was published early this year (1996). It is available in either English or in Russian language versions at either $US70.00 or ?40.00 (package and mailing costs included) from:- Map Room Attn: Francis Herbert Royal Geographical Society 1 Kensington Gore London SW7 2AR tel.: [UK code]-171-589-5466 fax: [UK code]-171-584-4447 email: [log in to unmask]