International contacts of landscape geographers and their importance for geography of the XX century
Interest in the achievements of Russian landscape geographers emerged only after the Second World War. From this time the contacts of Soviet geographers with foreign colleagues have begun. These contacts were of different nature due to political and ideological factors. The cooperation with the geographers of the socialist countries, especially German Democratic Republic, Poland and Czechoslovakia, was the most fruitful. Contacts with geographers from the countries of the Western bloc were more limited and one-sided. The greatest interest in Soviet geography originated in the United States. Since 1960 in this country monthly journal «Soviet geography» had been published; for 30 years hundreds of articles of Soviet geographers were published there in English.