Simon Willison’s Weblog

Soviet diribles. Pictures of Soviet dirigibles.

# 16th October 2008, 3:10 pm / airships, dirigibles, soviet

Soviet Military Maps History. “I have been researching the history of the Soviet global mapping project and, in particular, the large scale plans of British and Irish towns and cities produced from 1950s to 1990.”

# 11th April 2007, 12:43 pm / soviet, maps

Ekranoplan! Crazy awesome Soviet “ground effect” vehicle, visible in dry dock on Google Maps.

# 3rd April 2007, 10:04 am / google-maps, bill-humphries, soviet, ekranoplans