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ABSTRACT
The plans of world cities outside the USSR that were produced by the Soviet military during the Cold War each include a List of Important Objects. These are items of significant strategic economic, administrative or military importance. This paper examines these object lists from Soviet military plans of British cities and discusses their contents. It concludes that there is considerable variation in their comprehensiveness and some inconsistency in the criteria used to select objects for inclusion.
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John Davies
John Davies is a life-long map collector and enthusiast. He encountered Soviet mapping whilst working in Latvia in the early 2000s. John was editor of Sheetlines, the Journal of The Charles Close Society for the Study of Ordnance Survey Maps, and since retiring from a career in Information Systems has been writing and lecturing on Soviet maps. He lives in London and runs the website www.sovietmaps.com.
David Watt
David Watt is a retired geospatial professional, map collector, enthusiast, and member of a small diverse group researching Soviet, Russian and Warsaw Pact mapping. He was introduced to Soviet mapping through the International Cartographic Association in the early 1990s. David was one of the first Royal Geographical Society Chartered Geographers and has served as Publications Manager for The Charles Close Society for the Study of Ordnance Survey Maps and as a Council member of the British Cartographic Society. He lives in Bedfordshire.