The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-09-12
RUSSIAN EMPIRE
MUCH DIVIDED
Thirty-TwO New Nations In
It's Territory Before
the War
FIVE OF THEM ARE
NOW INDEPENDENT

Moscow Capital of Main Soviet Republic
-Ukrainian Republic Next In Inn
pOrtanee -, Changes Form Hard Les
sons In Geography.
PETROGRAD, Sept 12-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 Biographies incorporate the
new offshoots of the Russian Empire
in their schoolbooks
The realm over which Car Nicholas
ruled is now split up into q nations
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 included
/ in this map Although they We're for
| merlY of the Russian Empire, their com
/ plete independence has been recognized.
/ Also Esthonia, Latyia 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 - new nations where
4 there was only one before Soviet rule
/ prevailed in Russia.
! 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
/ III 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 au-
! tonomOus.
/ Great Iron and Coal Deposits.
| The Ukrainian republic, with its cap
/ ital at kharkGff, embraces the best part
/ of Southern Russia and includes Odessa.
| This Is the richest section of agricultural
! Russia and 1t contains the greatest de-
pOsits of iron and coal 1t was highly
! industrialized under the ears govern
ment.
Practically all of Siberia west of r.
kutsk is included in the Far Eastern
! Republic with its capital at Chita. I'm
| mediately south of this is the Mongolian
/ republic with its head at Urga. This
| belonged to China before the war. China
| still insists that it owns Mongolia and
i denies the existence of the new Soviet
| republic which Russia has created. Mon
4 golia had limited autonomy before the
| war, but Russia dominated it and
was really not Russian territory. but
claimed it.. as its sphere of influence
steadily refusing to allow American rail
way constructors to take concessions
which would touch this territory.
The karelian WoTkmen's Commune
with its capital at Petrosoyodsk lies
north of Petrograd, adjoining Finland
and has recently been the scene of con,
siderable fighting between Firms and
Soviet troops 1t is a sterile and worth,
less 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.
White Russian Republic.
Minsk is the capital Of the White Rus
| sian Republic, which isAof great import
| ance because it adioins Poland and the
new Baltic state of Lithuania. The
! Crimean republic, with its capital at
Simferopol. includes Sevastopol and sew
! eral other important Black Sea ports.
The Georgian and Azerbaijan Repub-
lies are of great Importance because they
include the great Russian oil supply