Abstract
The authors, one the director of the Institute of Geography, USSR Academy of Sciences and the other, the head of its cartography department, outline major trends in Soviet cartography over the last quarter century. They identify key theoretical and methodological issues which must be resolved in order for progress in the knowledge of mapmaking and map use to keep pace with technological advances in these areas. Among theoretical issues, particular attention is devoted to the need for evolutionary-historical and relativistic modes of thinking, whereas mathematical-cartographic modeling, automated mapping, and GIS are the focus of methodological/technological attention. Translated by Kathleen Quastler, Los Angeles, CA 90053 from: Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, seriya geograficheskaya, 1987, No. 5, pp. 36-47.
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