Oceanographie

Лоция Черного моря Pilot / Sailing Directions for the Black Sea

1987 · 009700 — Leningrad: Main Directorate of Navigation and Oceanography Ministry of Defence of the USSR 1987 4to 26 cm 584 pp. Publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and Soviet naval anchor-and-star emblem to upper cover number stamped on the front board rebacked binding somewhat skewed with extensive manuscript corrections and annotations in red ink throughout including a densely completed "Лист для учёта корректуры" Correction Record Sheet correction slips inserted for crossed out parts. Publication No. 1244 copy No. 5536 stamped "Для служебного пользования" For Official Use Only. Comprising a general survey navigational-geographical and hydrometeorological overviews and nine chapters of detailed coastal navigation covering the entire Black Sea littoral from the Kiliya mouth of the Danube through the Crimea Caucasian coast Turkish coast and Bulgarian and Romanian shores to the Bosphorus; with a reference section distance tables and alphabetical index; illustrated throughout with coastal profile engravings and navigational diagrams; tracking amendments applied through 1991 the final entries postdating the dissolution of the USSR. A later and substantially expanded edition than the 1968 issue this copy is of exceptional documentary interest as a working navigational instrument actively corrected and used through the final years of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet with the correction record providing a remarkable archival trace of operational naval use up to and beyond the collapse of the Soviet state. Main Directorate of Navigation and Oceanography, Ministry of Defence of the USSR hardcover