The Most important Communications Routes of the Forward Region of the Transcaucasian Theater.

Very unusual schematic map of the Transcaucasian region (Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan) focusing on the roads and railways.

There is no obvious map maker named on the face of this map but its military function suggests it was published by a government or Soviet army department. The map is solely focused on the communications routes within the Soviet Republics mentioned above. The arrows on the shores of the Black and Caspian Seas are "good areas to land troops". As the map is dated 1939, before the entry of Russia into World War II, the Republics were subordinate to Moscow and the map is in Cyrillic, this suggests that this was a Russian map surveying weak points in the Caucasus in case of an invasion of the Soviet Republic. 

The date of 1939 on this map suggests it was printed during the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a compromise between Germany and Russia which allowed both countries to invade Poland in 1939.  [RUS2698]