Geography and the great victory: a view 70 years later

This paper considers from a new perspective the notable contribution, as highlighted previously by many scholars, from national geography to the provision of the Armed Forces and the home front with military-geographical information and special maps during the Great Patriotic War. This author’s hypotheses are confirmed concerning the initial mobilizational nature of the pre-war national geographical science as well as the war-driven emergence of a new direction, i.e. resources geography, and a dominant role of landscape approach and its significance in comprehensive military-geographical mapping.