Hydrography

Russia was a riverine-boreal empire, replete with rivers ranging from the mighty Volga to the seasonal streams washing down hillsides in the Caucasian highlands. Rivers were a fundamental element of Russia's spatial profile, and they are a…

This layer contains five confirmed canals and ten features that may, or may not, be canals as well. The five confirmed canals include the Mariinskoi, Berezinskoi, Ivanovskoi (pictured in the accompanying map), Oginskoi, and Ladoga canals. Together…

This layer showcases some of the most fine-grained, mind-bogglingly delicate feature tracing in the entire geodatabase. It contains the boundaries of the 771 inland islands depicted on the atlas. They range in size from a diminuitive 0.13 square…

This dataset contains 5,637 features with a total area of 253,258 square kilometers (km2). The majority are lakes (named and unnamed). Estuaries and inland seas are included as well.The largest of these features, according to the atlas geometry, is…