This is a map I drew at school of an alternate, habitable moon, colonised by Soviet explorers. Set in the same universe as: 8979y97y.deviantart.com/art/Th… and 8979y97y.deviantart.com/art/Lu… in this timeline, the first manned expedition to the Moon was launched on 10 May 1963 from Baikonur, then in the USSR, carrying four men and two women. Four days later, their ship, the Роза ("Rose") landed at the current site of New Leningrad (yes, sorry, I reused the name from an earlier althist) and their lander became the centre of what would later be New Leningrad Station. Just two weeks later, the Moon was entered into the USSR as a full republic, despite not even having a permanent population.Just three months later, a second expedition, this time with a crew of 26 settlers, mostly political exiles from the outer territories, landed and began the construction of New Leningrad. Over the next two decades, the slow but assured colonisation, guided heavily by the Soviet government and mostly constructed by colonists themselves, of the Moon began, mostly with the construction of vast areas of farmland, being seeded with corn and wheat for harvesting. Most of these farms were operated by Kazakh colonists, which led to the naming of the massive New Kazakhstan District.After the Third World War, the number of lunar colonists, fleeing the collapse of the Soviet Union and Europe, rose rapidly from 1.5 million to 18 million by 2000. At this time, there was a growing local movement for independence, and in the 1990 Chicago Treaty, the Russian government - remnants of the Soviet authorities - agreed to give the LSSR full autonomy.От Волги до Амура, от Москвы до луны! Один союз! Одна Родина!