Print Fact SheetInteractive Agricultural Ecological Atlas of Russia and Neighbouring Countries

Organisation

The AgroAtlas Project began in 2003. Three Russian and an American agency collaborated on the Atlas. The St. Petersburg State University ;.The  N. I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry; and The All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection. The project was funded by the USDA, Agricultural Research Service, and Office of International Research Programs.

Summary description of the site

The Russian-English Agricultural Atlas is the world’s most comprehensive source of information on the geographic distribution of plant-based agriculture in Russia and neighboring countries. The Atlas contains 1500 maps that illustrate the distribution of 100 crops, 560 wild crop relatives, 640 diseases, pests and weeds, and 200 environmental parameters. Additionally, the Atlas provides detailed biological descriptions, illustrations, metadata and reference lists. Currently, individual maps can be downloaded and viewed using freely available AgroAtlas GIS Utility software, which can also be downloaded at this site. 

Link(s)

http://www.agroatlas.ru