Soviet territories 1939 – 1947 – map description

Map of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Most of the map is white, except for:

Red areas: Western part of Ukarine and all of modern-day Moldova. Eastern edge of modern-day Ukraine and Western part of modern-day Belarus. All of most of modern-day Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. A small eastern section of Finland. Small part of modern-day Russia just above Mongolia. The bottom half of the Sakhalin Oblast and Kurile Islands just beside Japan. None of these regions are labelled or include borders.

Light red areas: Most of Poland. Modern-day Czechia and Slovakia (labelled as Czechoslovakia). All of Albania, Hungary, Romania (labelled Rumania), and Bulgaria. All of an area labelled Yugoslavia (today split into Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia). All of Finland apart from the red area. All of Mongolia (labelled Outer Mongolia).

Dotted (lightest red) areas: Germany, Austria, Greece, Turkey, Iran (labelled Persia), Afghanistan, Korea (with no distinction between North Korea and South Korea), and China (with borders and labels for ‘Sinkiang’ – Xinjiang – Inner Mongolia, and Manchuria, an older English name for Northeast China).

Striped (blue) areas: Area labelled ‘Leningrad’ southeast of Finland. Area labelled ‘Moscow’ surrounding and including Moscow. Area labelled ‘Donbas’ southeast of Kiev. Area labelled ‘Caucasus’ northwest of Iran. Area labelled ‘Urals’ stretching above the Aral Sea. Area labelled ‘Koraganda’ above Lake Balkhash. Area labelled ‘Central Asia’ right above Afghanistan. Area labelled ‘Kusbas’ northwest of Mongolia. Area labelled ‘Eastern Siberia’ north of Mongolia. Area labelled ‘Fast East’ northeast of ‘Manchuria’.