The Communist Party of the Soviet Union based its legitimacy on the life and work of V.I. Lenin, one of the leaders of the Russian revolution and the founder of the Soviet state. This atlas of the Novosibirsk region in Siberia at the end of the Soviet era contains, in addition to its 32 maps, sections on the stay of V.I. Lenin and in Siberia, the establishment of Soviet power in Novosibirsk, the participation of the region in the Great Patriotic War (World War II), as well as descriptions of industrial, agricultural, educational and cultural achievements of the region.