Veniamin Maksovich Gokhman (sold) (Вениамин Максович Гохман)
Veniamin Maksovich Gokhman (Вениами́н Ма́ксович Го́хман; 1918 - 1986) was a prominent Soviet geographer and expert on the United States. Although initially trained as a chemist, Gokhman turned his attention to geography and wrote a doctoral dissertation on the geographic distribution of American industry and its role in the Second World War. In the mid-1950s, he began his career as a professor at Tomsk University and then at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. He was also deeply involved with the Institute of Geography of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Gokhman was a pioneer in the fields of mathematical geography and theoretical geography, though he also emphasized social and cultural aspects of geography. Although he never visited the U.S., Gokhman was a key figure in American Studies in the Soviet Union, a leading expert on American geography, and a translator of works of Western geographers into Russian.
AKA: Вениамин Максович Гохман
Cold War cartography.
This is a 1979 Cold War Era Russian-language map of the United States of America published by the Main Administration of Geodesy and Cartography of the Soviet Union (known by the anglicized form of its Russian initials GUGK). Assisting GUGK with this map was the geographer Veniamin Maksovich Gokhman, one of the most knowledgeable experts on American economic geography in the U.S.S.R. The map and its insets highlight the industrial and economic geography of the U.S., valuable information for the Soviets about their Cold War adversaries. (more details)