----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The USBGN gazetteer of the Soviet Union shows Hoffnungstal (Nadezhdovka) at 46 19N, 29 12E. On the U.S. Army Map Service - Eastern Europe 1:250,000 series (sheet NL 35-6 Tiraspol) these coordinates and the town is approx. 27 kilometers east of the Moldova border and well with The Ukraine. mek