Maps of the Eastern Front

[cstoesen]

Hello everyone.  I am looking for maps of the Eastern Front, specifically period maps of the Ukraine.  I found a couple of great resources but they are incomplete.

I know of http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/ that has the German Heereskarte maps in 1:50,000 scale that I have been using.  But he does not have the L-37-04 series that I need. 

http://dneproveloklub.dp.ua/otshety/ukrmaps/M37.html has modern maps of the areas I am interested in (mainly operational areas of the CSIR in 1941) but these are modern maps.  They are still useful in figuring out the map grid to look for at the wwii-photos-maps site.

http://nav.lom.name/maps_scan/M37/100k/ is again a nice modern map site but the maps are in 1:100,000 scale.

Ultimately what I would really love to find is 1:25,000 scale maps of these areas to assist me in scenario writing.

Any ideas?  Hopefully the sites above will be helpful to others as well.  I would prefer the German maps just because it would be easier for me to translate.  But Soviet maps would work just fine as well.

Chris Stoesen

[huevans]

Hi Chris

I have wrestled w the same problems as I build maps for the Il-2 Shturmovik computer air combat sim game. First, let me caution you about the maps in the pre-war series. They date from the 1920's and are often out of date for the 1940's. Badly.

Uncle Joe was really into hydro electric and irrigation projects and created a number of dams and reservoirs in Ukraine. The challenge is figuring which were / were not built by the time of WW2. The Dnepr looked very different in 1925, 1940 and 1960.

John's site also contains some 1:250,000 maps drafted by the US Army Corps of Engineers in the late 40's which are more period-accurate than the prewar 1:50,000 maps. I d/l-ed maps for DP, Odessa, Melitopol and Krivoy Rog. I suspect the rest of the series might be available elsewhere on the Net.

[huevans]

Hi Chris

I have wrestled w the same problems as I build maps for the Il-2 Shturmovik computer air combat sim game. First, let me caution you about the maps in the pre-war series. They date from the 1920's and are often out of date for the 1940's. Badly.

Uncle Joe was really into hydro electric and irrigation projects and created a number of dams and reservoirs in Ukraine. The challenge is figuring which were / were not built by the time of WW2. The Dnepr looked very different in 1925, 1940 and 1960.

John's site also contains some 1:250,000 maps drafted by the US Army Corps of Engineers in the late 40's which are more period-accurate than the prewar 1:50,000 maps. I d/l-ed maps for DP, Odessa, Melitopol and Krivoy Rog. I suspect the rest of the series might be available elsewhere on the Net. These are what I primarily ended up using.

[huevans]

Chris,

These are the maps I mean. I found the entire series elsewhere on the Net. John only has a few of them.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/eastern_europe/

[cstoesen]

Thanks for the link.  I will check this out.