Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-09-08
z n NATIONS ARE
MADE OF FORMER
] RUSS ! EMPIRE
New Map Shows All Divi-
sions; Each is Federated
With Moscow.

VA. Petrograd.-American boys who
have to learn the boundaries of the
countries OF the world and their CAPT.
tails will have a hard time when
makers Of Biographies incorporate
h new offshoots of the Russian en-
pire In their schoolbooks.
The realm over which Gar
Nicholas ruled is now split up ipto
~ nations which are all federated
with Moscow. A new official map is
sued by the Soviet government shows
all these divisions of what was once
European and Asiatic Russia.
Finland and Poland are not in
cluded in this map. Although they
were formerly of the Russian en-
pire, their complete independence has
been recognized. Also of Esthonia.
Latvia and L~ithuania, the new Baltic
states which have just been recogniz-
ed by the United States, are conced-
ed by the Moscow government to be
wholly separate. Consequently there
twas only one before Soviet rule pre-
ANailed in Russia.
MOSCOW is CAPITAL.
The main or parent Soviet republic
Icomprises practically all Of central
land northern European Russia and
Ehas its capital in Moscow. Many Of
Ethe other governments which have
ksprung up are in remote sections and
tcomprise slightly populated territory
with cities Of no size. Some of them
Pare republics. Others are classed as
The Ukrainian republic with its
fcapital at Kharkoff. embraces the
chest part Of southern Russia and in
tcludes Odessa. This is the richest
tsection of agricultural Russia and it
fcontains the greatest deposits Of iron
land coal. 1t was highly industralized
e.under h Cars government.
Practically all of Siberia west of
EIrkutsk is included in the far east
fern republic with it's capital at Chita.
Immediately south of this is the Mon
EGolian republic with it's head at Urga.
EThis was really not Russian territory,
Fbut belonged to China before, the
twar. China still insists that it owns
EMongolia and denies the existence of
1.-THE new Soviet republic which Russia
fhas created. Mongolia had limited
tautonomy before the war. but Russia
Nominated it and claimed it as it's
t6phere Of influence, steadily refusing
eto allow American railway construc-
ftors to take concessions which would
The Karelian Workmen's Com
,.mune, with its capital at Petroso-
!svodsk, lies north of P%etrograd. adj
tjoinihg Finland. n has recently
Sbeen the scene of considerable fight
Ting between Firms and Soviet troops.
lit is a sterile and wort ess country,
sbut because of its stra.tgic position,
commanding the railway to Kola,
Russia's, only. ice-free coast on the
north, is of great Importance.
Minsk Another Capital.
Minsk is the capital of the White
Russian republic. which -is~of, great
importance because it adjoins Poland
and the new Baltic state of Lithuania.
The Crimean republic, with its capt.
tai at Simferopol, includes Sevastoppl
and several other important Black
Sea ports. u
The Georgian inc Azerbaijan re-
publicS are of great Importance be-
cause they include the great Russian
oil supply which European nations
more, han any other Russian,
possession. Their capitals are TifH'
and Baku.
Bokhara, the land of rugs, with a
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
q republic with its capital at Khiva.
The Daghestan government has a
capital named Temir-Khan-S chura.
Names Are Hard.
Even harder for the student of
geography will be the name of the
fcapitai of the Khirghese republic.
sVatalpaschtnsk. Suchum Kale is the
name of the capital city Of the Abe
Ehashfshe republic.
Erivan is the capital of the new