New Britain herald., 1922-09-08
MANY HISTORICAL
 CHANGES IN RUSSIA
School Children to Come Will See
 Different Maps

Petrograd, Sept. s-American boys who have to learn the boundaries of the countries of the world and their capitals will have a hard time when makers of geographies incorporate pire in their school books.
 The realm over which Czar Nich- olas ruled is now split up into 27 na- tions which are all federated with Moscow. A new official map issued by the Soviet government shows all these divisions of what was once European and Asiatic Russia.
 Finland and Poland are not includ- ed in this map. Although they were formerly of the Russian empire, their complete independence has been recognized. Also Esthonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the new Baltic states which have just been recognized by the United States, are conceded by the Moscow government to be wholly separate. Consequently there are really 32 new nations where there was only one before Soviet rule prevailed in Russia.
 Many Changes
 The main or parent Soviet republic comprises practically all of Central and Northern European Russia and has its capital in Moscow. Many of the other governments which have sprung up are in remote sections and comprise slightly populated territory with cities of no size. Some of them are republics. Others are classed as communes, but all are autonomous.
 The Ukrainian republic. with it's capital at Kharkoff. embraces the best part of Southern Russia and includes Odessa. This is the richest section of agricultural Russia and it contains the greatest deposits of iron and coal. It was highly industraized under the Cars government.
 Practically all of Siberia west of Irkutsk is included in the Far Eastern republic with its capital at Chita Immediately south of this is the Mongolian republic with it's, head at Urga. This was really not Russian territory. but belonged to China be- fore the war. China still insists that it owns Mongolia and denies the ex- istence of the new Soviet republic which Russia has created. Mongotl had limited autonomy before the war; but Russia dominated it and claimed it in its sphere of influence. steadily refusing to allow American railway constructors to take concessions which would touch this territory
 The Karelian Workmen's commune with its capital at Petrosevodsk, lies north of Petrograd, adjoining Finland and has recently been the scene of considerable fighting between Films and Sovit troops. It is a sterile and worthless country, but because of its strategic position commanding the railway to Kola, Russia's only ice free coast on the north, is of great importance.
 Minsk is the capital of the White Russian republic, which is of great importance because it adjoins Po- land and the new Baltic state of Lithuania. The Crimean republic, with its capital at Simferopol, in- cludes Sevastopol and several other important Black Sea ports.
 Great Oil supply
 The Georgian and Azerbaijan re- publics are of great importance be- cause they include the great Russian oil supply which European nations covet more than any other Russian possession. Their capitals are Tihis and Baku.
 Bokhara, the land of rugs, with capital of the same name, is listed as one of the Soviet republics which Moscow has created east of the Cas- plan. Khiva, the land formerly ruled | by the khan of Khiva who is now a prisoner in Moscow, is now slated as a republic with its capital at Khiva. The Daghestan government has a cap tal named Temir- Khan Schura.
 Even harder for the student of geography will be the name of the capital of the Khirghese republic, Vatalpaschinsk. suchum Kale is the name of the capital city of the Abe republic.
 Erivan Is the capital of the new Armenian republic, which is now tolerated with Georgia and Azerbai- an. The Chuvash, Tartars Kal- nucks and several other Siberian ribes have their own separate re- oubics. The Tartar republic has its capital at Kazan, on the volga and s the center for one of the most ex- ensive famine relief organizations treated by the American Relief ad-