During World War II, Alexander Aslanikashvili worked in the Department of Cartography of the Transcaucasian Military District and participated in the creation and specification of topography maps.
[3] He combined logical thinking forms such as comparison, abstraction, generalization, analysis, synthesis and modeling with cartographic reflection, and therefore gave the definition of cartographic forms of comparison, analysis, synthesis, abstraction, generalization and modeling.
[4] Scientific researches of Alexander Aslanikashvili clarified the cardinal problems of theory of cartography and methodological issues of mapping.
In a basis of the theory of cartography its so-called big triad lies: subject, method and language.
[6] The concept was considered as semiotic, unlike the cognitive geographic approach of the Moscow State university’s cartography school, but cartographer Konstantin Salishchev accepted the theory of Aslanikashvilli.