Lakany, east of Ipsaklava

Sliding off the Kiyev sheet map onto L.34e, here's a whole view of the sheet we're cutting across:

For those curious about the location of Kherson, there it is, upper centre.  The eastern edge of my mapping hexagon (as it appears on GoogleEarth) is ragged, so I'm going to straighten that up ... which means at some points I'm going to do more than 3 sections on several rows.  That should take us right off the right edge of this new map and onto the next.  At the top of this one is the section I did last night; here's a close up image of it before mapping:

At the top is some overlay from the Kiyev map, so I could hook up roads and rivers as need be.  This particular section spreads over the corners of both the Kiyev and Dneiper sheets, so I wound up copying it twice and cleaning up the edges ... which took me nearly two hours last night.  A bit annoying, really.  But it's done.  Here's a close-up of the done map as it appears on the Crimea sheet:

The snake on the left is the Southern Bug's estuary, somewhat reimagined from Google Maps.  Part of the mapping includes assessing what a lake or a sea coast might have looked like before it was drained, dyked or irrigated out of existence.  It also means checking to see if a lake is real, since numerous existing lakes on these maps are reservoirs created in the 20th century.  As a species, we've been very diligent about damming every river we could for hydro-electric power, which in some cases has created some beautiful waterparks and elsewhere has left unpleasant mud-holes.  Give and take.

On to the east.