With tensions between the UK and Russia having escalated following Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, we are reminded of the not-so-distant past when the old USSR took a special interest in our towns and cities.
Working for the Soviet Union in absolute secrecy, Cold War cartographers pieced together maps of UK towns and cities, including Glasgow, using data from a wide variety of sources.
In one Soviet map of Glasgow, printed in 1981 at a time when the nuclear threat was in danger of bubbling over, we gain an idea of the communist super power's intentions.
