Kiev street plan from Kartografija in an international edition with all names in Latin alphabet, English map legend & names of museums, etc, a more detailed plan of the city centre, plus Pechersk & St. Sophia on detailed ground plans. The main plan covers the whole city at 1:27, 000. Main traffic arteries are highlighted & streets are annotated with selected house numbers for easier identification of addresses. Metro stations are prominently marked. Symbols highlight various facilities & places of interest, e.g. hotels, restaurants, night clubs, cultural institutions, places of worship of six different religions, etc. On the reverse a large, 36x 36cm plan presents the central part at 1:10, 000 in greater detail. The plan is indexed &

Includes:: extensive lists of hotels, embassies, museums, places of worship, etc, with names, where appropriate, given in English (e.g. Folk Decorative Art Museum, etc.) Plans of the Pechersk historical district & St. Sophia cathedral complex have drawings & names of the individual buildings, & a ground plan is also provided for the open air Museum of Folk Architecture & Life of Ukraine. Also included are a map of the metro network & a road map of the city

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Administrative provinces of the Ukraine on indexed road maps at 1:250, 000, each with a town centre street plan of its capital city. All place names are in Cyrillic only, but the map legend

Includes:: English. Coverage of the larger provinces is divided between the two sides of the map. Road network is presented in great detail, from international roads, shown with their E numbers, to dirt roads & country paths. Driving distances are marked on main, secondary & selected local roads; the maps also show border crossings, fuel stations, car service stations, & traffic patrol service points. Railway lines are shown with stations & local airports are marked. The maps also show boundaries of districts into which each region (oblast) is subdivided, & indicate their administrative headquarters. Topography is indicated by spot height, plus boundaries of national parks & other protected areas, & colouring and/or graphics for forests, orchards, vineyards, swamps & salt marshes. The maps have latitude & longitude lines at 10’ & 15’ respectively, & are indexed. Map legend

Includes:: English. Each title also

Includes:: a local table of driving distances & a street plan of the region’s administrative capital annotated with locations of selected hotels, car parks & petrol stations, museums & monuments, etc. In some titles more street plans are included.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE: supplies of all maps published by the Kartografija in Kiev are irregular & we cannot guarantee a definite delivery time for titles currently not in stock. To see the list of other titles in this series please click on the series link.






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Populated by urbane Jewish merchants & professionals as well as new arrivals from the shtetl, Imperial Kiev was acclaimed for its opportunities for education, culture, employment, & entrepreneurship but cursed for the often pitiless persecution of its Jews. Kiev, Jewish Metropolis limns the history of Kiev Jewry from the official readmission of Jews to the city in 1859 to the outbreak of World War I. It explores the Jewish community`s politics, its leadership struggles, socioeconomic & demographic shifts, religious & cultural sensibilities, & relations with the city`s Christian population. Drawing on archival documents, the local press, memoirs, & belles-lettres, Natan M. Meir shows Kiev`s Jews at work, at leisure, in the synagogue, & engaged in the activities of myriad Jewish organizations & philanthropies. ...

Street plan of Kiev from the locally based Kartografija in an English language edition presenting the whole city at 1:35, 000, with a more detailed enlargement for the city centre, a 3-D pictorial plan of the central area including the Maidan Square, lists of sights, hotels, etc. All place names are in the Latin alphabet & map legend

Includes:: English. On one side is a plan of the city at 1:35, 000. Main traffic arteries are highlighted & metro stations are prominently marked. Streets are annotated with selected house numbers for easier identification of addresses. Symbols show hotels (with names), shopping centres, various monuments & cultural institutions, places of worship, etc. The map has both present day administrative boundaries but also old historical names of various parts of the city. Insets present the city centre, from the Dnieper to the Solomianskyi railway terminal, in greater detail at 1:17, 000, plus a map of the metro network. On the reverse Kiev’s historic heart is shown on a pictorial stylel street plan with all the buildings & monuments drawn in 3-D, with 25 best sights cross-reference to brief descriptions. Street index is supplemented by a list of hotels, cultural institutions, transport terminals & places of worship.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING: supplies of all titles published in the Ukraine are irregular & we cannot guarantee a firm delivery time. When a title is out of stock, it may be advisable to choose an alternative publication.


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The 1:50, 000 topographic map gives a more general picture of the ground features than a basic map. It shows settlements, houses, roads, cultivated areas, waterways, cutting areas, mires, rock exposures, & relief. One map sheet covers an area of 30 x 40 km & one centimetre corresponds to 500 metres on the ground. The 1:50, 000 topographic map is also an ideal complement to nautical charts as it provides useful information about the land areas adjacent to waterways. For example, all Finnish sea areas are covered by 1:50, 000 topographic map sheets. ...

This journal features striking gold embellishment combined with the look of an old leather journal that has been lovingly used for at least a century. It is made from paper & thick cardboard & the back cover comes up to wrap itself on the front cover with the help of an invisible magnet, thus protecting the pages inside. It has 144 ruled pages, a memento pouch, & a grey ribbon marker. 13x 18cm. ...

A lined journal, in an ingeniously printed faux leather cover which captures the flavour of finely wrought Renaissance-style leather bindings. It is intricately embellished with one of three designs to reproduce the delicate gold tooling which was brought to Europe via the flourishing trade routes with the east. Closes with a fold-over cover flap. Smythe sewn with 144 pages, plus memento pouch & ribbon page marker. 18x 23cm ...

A lined journal, in an ingeniously printed faux leather cover which captures the flavour of finely wrought Renaissance-style leather bindings. It is intricately embellished with one of three designs to reproduce the delicate gold tooling which was brought to Europe via the flourishing trade routes with the east. Closes with a fold-over cover flap. Smythe sewn with 144 pages, plus memento pouch & ribbon page marker. 18x 23cm ...

This Kikkerland Travel Accessories series presents one of the most successful collections from Kikkerland Design. Kikkerland is always on the cutting edge with their innovative & fun products. They travel the world searching for original designs for items that can make life more enjoyable & for smart things that make everyday tasks easier. Kikkerland offers one of the world`s largest collections of ingenious items combining form, function, & delight in equal parts. ...

In February 2018, Kiko Matthews set out to row solo & unsupported, 3000 miles across the Atlantic. She not only added her name to the handful of women who had successfully made the crossing solo, but did so in a world record time of 49 days, 10 hours & 13 minutes
- more than five days less than the previous record. She had never rowed before deciding on this challenge. But following brain surgery after being diagnosed with a rare life-threatening condition, she set herself goals that pushed her mental & physical boundaries to the limit. In her book she vividly describes her epic voyage & what drove her to attempt it.
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