The project basemaps consist of three ArcView shapefiles . The oblasty and rayony shapefiles comprise their respective administrative boundaries in a polygon format. The stolitsy shapefile consists of point data. Each shapefile is available for download in a zipped archive or all together in a single archive. The basemaps are currently stored unprojected.
User are free to project the maps in whatever manner desired.
These parameters conform to the typical conic projection used in most atlases for the Soviet Union.