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Topography department publications which are described in 1939 publications catalogue of Military topography department of GS MoD
1918 independent Lithuania territory was covered by tsarist period lace gauge system and topographical maps of Kaiser Germany, which administrated Lithuania after War World I. It was hard to interpret them, because of mean chromatic separate objects oneness, mutational information since formation date and perverted whereas sometimes unrecognizable place-names. New photos topography requirement was beyond doubt. Therefore, in 1924 in the Lithuanian Army General Staff was established Topography section of which the 1929 rose to the Topography department of Defense Ministry of the composition. It was concluded that the edge of the economy and the military the necessary topographic maps in scale 1:25 000. Until the First World War, the map scale has existed in the region of Klaipeda in Lithuania. At the beginning has been initiated to make the original photo, but they are not satisfied with the pace of implementation needs. Thus, the acceleration, have been carried out in parallel to the resumption of Russian maps, they are adapting to new frame. Despite the fact that the picture was updated 4-5 times faster than the original, before the Second World War released 19 original maps and 73 recognized maps were published. That signify, 92 published maps in scale M1:25000 of Lithuania present about 1/6 the territory of Lithuania. It was planned to prepare 823 (with the edge of the occupied Vilnius) or 542 (at the time the current territory of Lithuania) maps in scale M1:25000. The second smaller scale topographic maps were the M 1:100 000 map. These maps were draw using maps in scale M1:25000 by generalizing sheets, and where the photo was not yet done, the use of German M 1:100 000 topographical maps, correcting them according to a new aerial and the main road street recognize results. Therefore, spend M 1:100 000 maps of its quality rather mixed. However, such technology has allowed the work to the Second World War to cover about 2/3 of the territory of Lithuania from the seaside to the occupied Vilnius region without edge under the Lithuanian border. A third yet smaller scale maps were in 1933 published in two sheets of M 1: 400 000 maps covering all of the ethnographic territory of Lithuania. The evaluation of these three maps of scale to be considered as the most successful M 1:100 000 topographic maps, which is interpreted, and its contents in some topographical elements of the post-war equivalent of larger scale 1: 50 000 maps.