Interesting Books on the shelf....

One of the "interesting" books I consulted during my initial search for missing family, was this little atlas, published in the USSR, in Moscow, in 1977.

Soviet Road Maps were notorious for being misleading, or inaccurate.  I searched the pages of this, looking, in vain, for our little village, about 200 km north of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad).

Notwithstanding, as we filled in the missing pieces of family that had disappeared and where they lived then, it was a valuable help in seeing where they all went...spread throughout the vast lands of Siberia throughout the years.

I was even able to use some of it on my own travels in the former USSR.