Konski Vody

Konski Vody, the Horse Waters, is the old name of the Konka, a river crossing the steppe towards the Dnipro. Its valley lay in a frontier shared and contested by Nogai and Zaporozhian Cossack communities. An account of Cossack campaigns at the end of the sixteenth century describes rich Nogai encampments between the Konka and the Molochna. Farther downstream the river entered the maze of waters and islands along the Dnipro.