Moscow

Moscow was the hometown of Oleg Gordievsky, and also the base for KGB operations. Gordievsky went to university in Moscow, and it is where he met his friend Stanislaw Kaplan. Later in the book, when Gordievsky was summoned home from Britain, he confirmed that the KGB suspected him of being a spy because they turned one of the locks on his Moscow apartment to which he did not have the key.

Moscow also had political importance in the time the book focuses on, as it was the setting of the powerful communist party that Gordievsky wanted to bring down. It was the base setting for the Soviet Union, and was ultimately the same place where the dissolution happened in 1991.

Vyborg

Vyborg is the city nearest the PIMLICO rendezvous location. Veronica Price picked out Kilometre Post 836, which is just south of Vyborg, as a good place to make the...