Abstract
The results of work on the World Atlas of Snow and Ice Resources during the 1970s and 1980s, headed by the Institute of Geography, USSR Academy of Sciences, are examined. Information is given on the purposes, structure, and special features of the Atlas, and the role of snow and ice phenomena in the Earth's geographical shell is characterized quantitatively. Translated by Edward Torrey, Alexandria, VA from: Izvestiya Aka-demii Nauk, seriya geograficheskaya, 1998, No. 5, pp. 10-23.
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