this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
520 points (99.6% liked)

Map Enthusiasts

6108 readers
179 users here now

For the map enthused!

Rules:

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Skua@kbin.earth 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's avoiding the Ural mountains. Even straightening out that curve on the southward leg of the route would still only pass over the Caspian sea, which is still quite far from Ukraine

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I thought that it could be mountains, but I couldn’t seen any on the map.