29. Glavnoe Upravlenie Geodesii i Kartografii, Ukrainskaya SSR i Moldavskaya SSR. Moskva, 1959. COLL.S/T W.2y.34
This map of the Directorate-General of Geodesy and Cartography in Moscow displays the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic and the Moldavian Socialist Soviet Republic in 1959. In Ukraine during World War II almost seven million people were killed. The war brought destruction to hundreds of cities and thousands of villages and made nineteen million people homeless. But the Soviet victory led to territorial gains. Ukraine expanded westward to include Eastern Galicia, previously part of Poland, and annexed the area around Izmail in the southwest, previously part of Romania. Czechoslovakia handed over Carpathian Ruthenia. This increased the population of Ukraine by eleven million. In 1954, during the tercentenary celebrations of the 'reunification' of Hetmanate Ukraine with Muscovite Russia, Khruhchev transferred the Crimea to Ukraine as a symbol of the 'eternal friendship' between the two East Slavic peoples. However, the practical reason was that agriculture on the peninsula depended on irrigation water from Ukraine.