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stress on the economic division into districts and the charac- 

 teristics of these districts. In this connection, he placed great 

 importance on economic maps and field economic-geographic 

 investigation of territories. Baranskii compiled a series of 

 textbooks on economic geography of the U.S.S.R. (among them, 

 a standard textbook for the eighth grade which until 1955 had 

 16 editions). He established a series of university courses. He 

 is the author of questions of methodology of economic geography 

 and cartography. 



In March 1962, Baranskii was awarded the Hero of Socialist 

 Labor. 

 Bibliography: 



Physical Geography of the U.S.S.R. Textbooks for Junior 

 High School and High School, 7th ed. Moscow: 1943. 

 Economic Geography of the U.S.S.R. Textbooks for eighth 

 grade of High School, 16th ed. Moscow: 1955. 

 Economic Geography of the United States, Part 1. Moscow: 

 1946 (Institute of International Relations). 

 Economic cartography, #1, 3. Moscow, 1939-40 (mimeo- 

 graphed). 



On the methods of teaching a regional course of economic 

 geography of the U.S.S.R. Bulletin of the AU-Union Scientific 

 Society, 1941, #1. 



Economic -geographic study of cities. Questions of Geogra- 

 phy, 1946, #2. 



Generalization in cartography and in the writing of geo- 

 graphic textbooks. Scientific Papers of the Moscow State 

 University of M. V. Lomonosov, 1946, #119, Book 2. 

 Economic Geography — Economic Cartography. Moscow: 

 1956. 



Economic Geography in a Secondary School— Economic 

 Geography in an Advanced School. Moscow: 1957 (contains 

 list of works of Baranskii). 

 Biography: 



Geography in the University of Moscow for 200 Years, 1755- 

 1955, Moscow, 1955. 



75th Anniversary of Nikolai Nikolaevich Baranskii. Geogra- 

 phy in School, 1956, #4. 

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