Side by side with the traditional maps there are some original cartographic works illustrating the multiformity of the search in the show and in the representation of the state of the geographic environment. Some maps reflect the influence of the industry and agriculture on the state of the air and water. The series of the maps of a scale of one to five hundred thousand is worthy of note characterizing the radiation situation on the territory of the European part of the former USSR as a whole and in its separate regions Byelorussia, Kaluga, Kursk, Leningrad, Tula and other regions in particular. The mapping connected with the protection of the nature is developing by leaps and bounds. The complex ecological maps rouse the keenest interest among the users.
Similar maps are still few.
It is the first complex ecological map. The map shows the spreading of the forests, the land tenure, the boundaries of the zones of the sanitary protection of the drinking reservoirs, hydrological conditions of the water supplies in settlements. A special section of the legenda dwells upon the technogenic pollution of the atmosphere, of the surface water, of the ground deposits, of the soil cover, of the subterranean water. Places for dumping the industrial and domestic waste are marked out. It shows habitats of eight species of fishes and animals and spawing places of fishes.