{"product_id":"old-soviet-military-map-of-dubai-1979-dubai-creek-bur-dubai-deira-jumeirah-sheikh-zayed-rd-persian-gulf-coast","title":"Old Soviet Map of Dubai, 1979: Dubai Creek, Bur Dubai–Deira, Jumeirah, Sheikh Zayed Rd, Persian Gulf coast","description":"\u003cp\u003eDubái (Дубай), issued in 1979 by the Soviet Union Army, presents a riveting, outsider’s portrait of the city at the threshold of modern transformation. Rendered in Russian Cyrillic, the cartography pairs a disciplined grid overlay with a refined palette—orange blocks for built-up quarters, light green for parks and vegetation—to emphasize structure, function, and terrain. What makes this a particularly notable city map is its emphasis on strategic legibility over spectacle: a crisp delineation of urban fabric, major intersections, and coastal frontage along the Persian Gulf. Read today, it restores a Dubai of compact hubs and linear waterfronts, setting the stage for the decades of expansion that would follow while preserving the spatial logic that anchored the city’s earliest global ambitions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDubai Creek dominates the composition as the historic hinge between Bur Dubai and Deira, its sinuous inlet dictating commerce, circulation, and settlement. On the Deira side, Al Riqqa Road and Al Sabkha Road form lively spines toward the souqs, with Nakheel Road and Omar Bin Al Khatab Road threading into denser blocks near the waterfront. Across the water, Shindagha Road signals the old maritime quarter at the creek’s mouth, while Maktoum Road pushes inland to key crossings and public buildings. Parks and quays appear in measured patches of green and pale shoreline, underscoring how the creek’s sheltered coves supported trade as much as everyday urban life—a superb testament to the map’s sensitivity to Dubai’s mercantile DNA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRunning southwest, the coastal corridor unfolds along Jumeirah Beach Road, skirting neighborhoods that were then low-rise, seaside, and intimately scaled. Al Wasl Road and Sufouh Street trace a parallel inland rhythm, with Umm Al-Sheif Road stitching together emerging residential pockets and recreational grounds. Light green panels flag beachfront greenswards and nascent parks—discrete breathing rooms between the Gulf’s luminous edge and the steadily infilling grid. Here the cartographer’s eye lingers on the junction of sea, sand, and suburb: a spare, luminous margin where plotted streets met open plots, and where the city’s future leisure landscapes first took tentative root along the Persian Gulf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe arterial network is captured with cool precision, revealing the skeleton that would drive later growth. Sheikh Zayed Road appears as a formative axis, aligned with Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Road to orchestrate movement from the creek districts toward the southwest. In Zabeel, a nexus of Al-Zabeel Street, Zabeel Road, and Wafi Street outlines administrative and residential grounds, while Al Wasl Road threads continuity back toward Jumeirah. To the northeast, Al Qusais Road and Al Tawar Street open corridors toward new suburbs, with Manama Street and Murdif Road suggesting expansion along the desert’s edge. Avenue Al-Dhayfa, Durar Street, and Zhafira Street round out a network whose intersections and hierarchies the grid overlay renders unmistakably clear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a work of Soviet military cartography, the map distills Dubai into intelligible systems—thoroughfares, public buildings, infrastructural nodes—filtered through Cyrillic toponyms that sharpen, rather than obscure, the city’s logic. The Soviet program’s strategic aims yield an urban portrait that is exacting yet revealing: ports and creek-side installations prioritized, administrative precincts crisply bounded, and arterial routes cleanly appraised for mobility and control. For collectors and scholars alike, this is a rare perspective on a pivotal Gulf city—a city map that freezes Dubai between trading entrepôt and global metropolis, reading its future in the alignment of streets like Shindagha Road, Al Riqqa Road, and Sheikh Zayed Road, and in the measured greens that foreshadowed parks, promenades, and civic life to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStreets and roads on this map\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAl Ameerat Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAl Hudaiba Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAl Muntaqim Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAl Qusais Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAl Riqqa Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAl Sabkha Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAl Tawar Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAl Wasl Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAl-Zabeel Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvenue Al-Dhayfa\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDurar Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJumeirah Beach Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaktoum Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eManama Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMurdif Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNakheel Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOmar Bin Al Khatab Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSheikh Zayed Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShindagha Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSufouh Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUmm Al-Sheif Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWafi Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eZabeel Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eZhafira Street\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotable Features \u0026amp; Landmarks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCoastal area along the Persian Gulf\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUrban centers and residential neighborhoods\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublic landmarks such as parks and recreational areas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMajor roads and intersections\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDistinct geographical features, such as the Dubai Creek\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical and design context\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDubái (Дубай), made in 1979\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished by the Soviet Union Army; labels in Russian Cyrillic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVery rare, large, and highly detailed city map focused on urban layout, infrastructure, and geographic features\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDesign uses orange for urban structures and light green for parks\/vegetation, with a grid overlay\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProduced within a Soviet mapping program oriented to military and political (strategic\/geographic) purposes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCaptures Dubai before it became a global city; a useful reference for understanding its rapid transformation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeographic scope: primarily Dubai, United Arab Emirates\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlease double check the images to make sure that a specific town or place is shown on this map. You can also get in touch and ask us to check the map for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a very large map that must be ordered at a large size, so that you can easily make out all of the details. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 100in (250cm). If you are looking for a larger map, please \u003ca href=\"\/it\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003eget in touch\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe model in the listing images is holding the 16x20in (40x50cm) version of this map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fifth listing image shows an example of my map personalisation service.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you’re looking for something slightly different, check out my collection of the \u003ca href=\"\/it\/collections\/all-old-vintage-antique-maps\"\u003ebest old maps\u003c\/a\u003e to see if something else catches your eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlease \u003ca href=\"\/it\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003econtact me\u003c\/a\u003e to check if a certain location, landmark or feature is shown on this map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis would make a wonderful birthday, Christmas, Father's Day, work leaving, anniversary or housewarming gift for someone from the areas covered by this map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map is available as a giclée print on acid free archival matte paper, or you can buy it framed. The frame is a nice, simple black frame that suits most aesthetics. Please get in touch if you'd like a different frame colour or material. My frames are glazed with super-clear museum-grade acrylic (perspex\/acrylite), which is significantly less reflective than glass, safer, and will always arrive in perfect condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Unique Maps Co.","offers":[{"title":"16x20in (40x50cm) \/ Map","offer_id":58250358522240,"sku":"UM00295171A","price":63.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"16x20in (40x50cm) \/ Framed map","offer_id":58250358555008,"sku":"UM00295172A","price":140.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"16x20in (40x50cm) \/ Framed canvas map","offer_id":58250358587776,"sku":"UM00295173A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24in (45x60cm) \/ Map","offer_id":58250358620544,"sku":"UM00295174A","price":73.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24in (45x60cm) \/ Framed map","offer_id":58250358653312,"sku":"UM00295175A","price":160.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24in (45x60cm) \/ Framed canvas 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