I don’t have an atlas. I did. Once. I’m sure an atlas would have cost much more than the map.
The author won my heart when he spelled out Russian words phonetically. Although I think the natives wouldn’t have been too impressed with his efforts!
Oddly, the phonetics were pretty much like the Anglicisation ;-).
We have to get a new atlas every few years because the world changes on us. Vlad went through a phase where every time he saw a globe or a world map, he would check it for South Sudan and North Macedonia. Neeeeeerrrrrd.