Home – Home – Jornals – Geography and Natural Resources 2019 number 5S

Contemporary society needs competent atlas cartosemiotic publications that form its scientific knowledge and intellectual communication potential. We consider the process of forming the iconic system of atlas mapping of the Baikal region. More than twenty atlases were created for the territory of the Baikal region and published. Fifteen of these were selected by us for their general cartosemiotic study. The internal cartosemiotic structure of atlases was analyzed through the prism of a unified system developed by the author, the classification of symbols and graphic display methods on the example of two atlases: of Transbai kalia and the Ecological Atlas of the Lake Baikal Basin. Both atlases include scientific fundamental and comprehensive content: we achieved the thematic completeness of the atlas, its sections and individual maps, created as a whole scientific work, showing specifically the components of nature and society and their territorial interaction. The analytical, synthetic, complex and system maps of the atlases are combined with a special system-hierarchical organization of the legend. In general, the mutual coordina tion of individual maps in sections and of the sections themselves was successfully implemented, which corresponds to the scien tific requirements for compiling maps and designing atlases for publication. The presence of balance and diversity in the combi nation of various types, classes, groups and types of syntactic designs of map characters revealed during semiotic analysis of atlases demonstrates a high scientific level of map compilation works and works on the general semiotic design of the publication of the atlas of Transbaikalia and the Environmental Atlas of the Lake Baikal Basin.