Moldova / Ukraine

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Briceni Area: Bordermarkers 0057 - 0064
On this second day I made a long hike from border crossing Briceni-Rossoșanî to border crossing Grimăncăuți-Vașkivțî. The first half an hour I was accompanied by a Border Guard callad Anatoli, but he didn't feel much for hiking about 20 kilometers. Fortunately for him his boss asked him to return to the border crossing due to increased traffic. So het let me go alone. I was lucky today: the night before my suitcase arrived in Edinet so I had good clothes and shoes. Besides that, during my hike it was dry.
Map 0057-0071
In the past years the border was changed here between BM 58 and 61. The second map -under the mouse- is from 1982. There you see on the original print the border as black dotted lines. Later the border was changed (when?) between the red number 81 and 83, this is marked with a red marker. By the way: these red numbers on the old map do not refer to the border markers in the field but to the number of angles in the border line). According to the changes, the border follows the railway line, which of course makes sense. Nowadays however, the railway line has disappeared and the border is changed back to its old course. Maybe the northern and southern part are simply exchanged.

EE-RU  20160415 Border marker 0057
First I went to BM 0057, west from the border crossing Briceni-Rossoșanî.

EE-RU  20160415 Border marker 0059
Actually I forgot to visit BM 0058 which is at the border crossing Briceni-Rossoșanî. A bit stupid, but I only noticed it when I reached BM 0059. Now it was too late to turn back. And after doing the whole day trip, I didn't see anybody to ask.
Anyway, we are now in the fields. The landscape is a flat, sometimes a bit hilly. The ground is in use for agricultural purposes. As we will see later, they mainly grow XX and apples. For export to Ukraine and Russia.

EE-RU  20160415 Border marker 0059-05
Between the high border pillars there are also smaller white sub-markers which all contain a sub-number. They are placed on the border itself. Usually they indicate a small angle in the border. On some places there are many of them.

Border marker 0060
Typical image of the area.

EE-RU  20160415 Border marker 0060-01
The main reason for me to visit such borders in spring: not too much vegetation. When you come here in summer, it's hard to walk here and even harder to find and picture the border markers.

EE-RU  20160415 Border marker 0060-02
A 90 degrees angle in the water.

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Intro 0001-0010 0011-0020 0021-0030 0031-0040 0041-0050 0051-0060 0061-0070 0071-0080 0081-0090 0091-0100 0101-0204 0478-0570 (PMR) 0571-0781