hi,

Plan to ride to magadan in 2012. Where's the best place to get maps for russia?

Ive tried stampford maps in london and the detail was a little lacking!

Cheers

How much detail are you looking for? Unless you intend to do some real trail-blazing, in many of these areas there is essentially only one road in the direction you're going, so there's not much point in having detailed maps. Russian road atlases will be readily available once you're in Russia, various scales are typically available. If possible, you'd probably find it helpful to learn the Cyrillic alphabet before setting out, its not that hard.

In addition, Walter Colebatch has uploaded an extensive set of waypoints for Siberia and the Far East, including the road to Magadan, which is stickied in the Northern Asia subforum.

Certainly the best road atlas I have found, covering almost all of Russia, is in the link below.

It only excludes far, remote areas of north east Russia, from a line north of Mirny, Yakutsk, Khandigar and Susuman although those are included.
The scale varies 1:800,000 1:1,500,000 and 1:3,000,000 depending on density of region. It shows built up areas, towns, villages, roads, tracks, railways, and rivers (but not the depth!). Some topographical detail such as marshlands, forest, etc.
It also includes detailed street plans of 9 major European Russia cities plus 4 more in adjoining countries, and 1:200,000 maps of Moscow Region Distance charts (Km) and a full index of place names.
All names are in Cyrillic but each page has a ‘thumbnail index’ map showing town names in Roman/English alphabet. Useful practice learning to recognize and read the Cyrillic alphabet!

336 pages, slightly larger than A4. Includes a ‘free’ magnifier. Current edition is No.6. 2010-2011.

I am visiting UK in 3 weeks time and will happily bring copies if anyone PMs me with their name address and a promise to send me the cost plus UK postage (about £10 - £12) when received. I will include b/w photocopy of a poorer map of the north east road above he cut-off line, if requested

The sample pages in the links do not show the real quality of the print and relate to much older editions!
[url=http://www.allmaps.ru/avto_km_stolb/russia]

Sorry - can't get HyperLink to work - you will have to cut'n paste!

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And answered!
No problem.


Anyone else?
Let me know ASAP, but before 3 December please.

To clarify, £10-12 is estimated total of the cost of both the atlas and postage from/to UK.
I am happy to mail elsewhere from UK or locally en-route as I cross northern Europe (LT, LV, PL, D, NL, B, F.

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TP, see if you can find these ... I have both but prefer this one to the one you linked to. Take a look and see what you think.

Russia Road Atlas (Paperback ed.)

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Hey Tony, got my atlas in the mail yesterday . Thank you very much. I'll owe you...

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