Ukraine maps, which ones?

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Living in London, I’d normally walk into Stamfords and leaf through the maps on offer, but due to the Covid restrictions, that option is not available to me.

The Stamfords’ website listed just the Marco Polo maps as in stock and available to order, so I’ve bought them, along with a map of just the Carpathians. I’ve also bought the Rough Guide and Lonely Planet books to thumb through.

Whilst I realise maps are personal things, one style not necessarily suiting someone else, I’d be pleased to have some suggestions on maps from anyone who’s been. I’ll be riding a 1600, so I won’t be wanting real goat track stuff but something with enough detail to show ‘reasonable’ roads (they don’t have to be billiard table smooth) would be great.

Thank you.

Richard
 
Blimey Richard your asking us.....!!!!!

We always ask you...:D
 
Blimey Richard your asking us.....!!!!!

We always ask you...:D

I am missing the opportunity of wandering to Covent Garden and into Stamfords, I must admit. There is not much I have found so far on the internet about mototorbiking or even driving around the place, not even on Horizons Unlimited. Border crossing is easy enough for a UK passport holder and some UK insurers will give Green Card cover, at least for the Western Ukraine, which will be good enough for me.

I’m still trying to get my head around the size of the place, roughly 2.5 times that of the UK, with a population of 44m versus our 64m..... so I anticipate a lot of ‘nothing’ between A and B, rendering most maps all but irrelevant. What I am really after are maps with the local spelling of place names.... even in cyrilic.
 
Have poke around on Adventure bike rider, I’ve seen several trips to and around the Ukraine in the past. It’s got the making of a memorable trip, so many places to visit en route, we had fun in the Harz mountains and fell upon the ski resorts in Krkonossky national park in Poland.
 
Thank you, John; a good tip.

A quick look turned this up:

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Nice report here:

https://adventurebikerider.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=44599&hilit=Ukraine it’s not all the bits I am heading for but interesting just the same.
 
Thank you, John; a good tip.

A quick look turned this up:

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UIb23lQpvRI" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Nice report here:

https://adventurebikerider.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=44599&hilit=Ukraine it’s not all the bits I am heading for but interesting just the same.

Looks like a bucket list trip for Andres and the mighty Tomas.
 
Ukraine has been on my list for the last two years and not made it yet!
 
Reading about the wartime history of Lviv recently and it seems one fascinating and historical city.
 
This thread just cost me £40. I looked for the Ukraine map on Stanford's and then got engrossed so now have an email confirming my order which includes maps of Ukraine, western Russia, Caucasus, Turkey and Georgia. I had already bought Kazakhstan and Mongolia for next year so this fills in the gap I guess. I can now plan which way to get to Kazakhstan.
 
You might consider off road tyres, unless they have resurfaced nearly all roads. Potholes big enough to lose a Toyota Landcruiser are common place. Local plod are very underpaid and will see you as a cash cow. Whilst in a VW Caravelle we were stopped between Kharkov and Donetsk, a journey you probably couldn’t currently undertake, and told to take some recruits to the next town.
 


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