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[SOVIET-CUBAN RELATIONS] Mapa Tectonico de Cuba = Tektonicheskaia karta Kuby [i.e. Tectonic Map of Cuba]

Item #1749

Moscow: Geologicheskii institut Akademii Nauk SSSR: Glavnoe upravlenie geodezii i kartografii Ministerstvs geologii SSSR, 1966. 50x101 cm. Very good, few tears of edges. Stamp of private library of Soviet academician on upper margin.

One of 4000 copies produced. Scale is 1 : 1,250,000. This original bilingual map was co-compiled by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR with the Academy of Sciences of Cuba. Authors are Iu. Pushcharovsky, A. Knipper, M. Puig-Rifa. Cuba is located in an area with several active fault systems that produce about 2,000 seismic events each year. Most of the recorded seismic events go unnoticed.
Establishment of a course towards socialism in Cuba had begun three decades of cooperation between the USSR and Cuba, including economic, political, technical, scientific and academic assistance in relation to Cuba. There was an intensive exchange of scientific data between countries until the collapse of the USSR. The Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Cuba was founded in 1962, and an Agreement on Scientific Cooperation was signed in Moscow in May 1963. An essential part of the cooperation was the study of natural resources of Cuba.
This map was released in the early years of this collaboration. The next year a book ‘Geology and Minerals of Cuba’ by the same scientists included the map as well. One of the authors,
Yurii Pushcharovsky (1916-2018) headed the entire Soviet geological research of Cuba of that period. The map shows the main tectonic units of Cuba, sediments, shifts, faults, etc. The print also contains a small-scale Scheme of Locations of the Main Structures.

Price: $450.00